Which group of people comes off as the most pretentious?

Don't feel bad. Me and an old roomie got dragooned to judge this science fair. I blame the roomie because his girlfriend was a teacher at the school, and figured she'd dragoon the biggest geeks she knew.

So we get unloaded on another teachers boyfriend, because he had some spare rooms, and was also a judge because he'd just gotten out of med school and was waiting for his first internship, and had no excuse to get out of it.

Big hint, do not let some freak IQ computer geeks into your pile of medical books. We thought it was lulz because it was not some boring ass netware book, and a bunch of arbitrary shit made up by other engineers. Er, wait, were we engineers then? I dunno.

Anyway, we plow through all this shit, and proceed to blow the unholy hell out of the mind of this larval doctor when it comes to digesting raw data. Oh, this was your last 6 years? :D Well at least the human body doesn't change every 18 months asshole!

He's getting his first real life cases referred to him unofficially. Relatives aches and pains, all that BS. He takes a crack at his diagnosis, I tell him why he's full of it, and detail my reasoning. Pretty sure he gets the idea that he's been locked in an apartment with a couple of space aliens, because he starts going out to jog, A LOT, in winter. :D

But, things balance out. This being the mega city that it is, and computer repairs and upgrades being insanely expensive, in short order we end up with a shit ton of towers piled up in the apartment waiting to be upgraded, and burning hundreds for upgrade parts from Frys. Oh yessss! Love the big city!!!

Nothing like two bored and captive geeks, a ton of PCs, and a pile of pirated software waiting to be installed. :D

And of course, me and the roomie proceed to scare the living crap out of the larval doctor by showing him every crazy assed web site on the fairly young internet.

The science fair, well, it was a slog. But they kept us plied with booze and good food. We tried not to scar any young minds for life, and our picked winners got third in the state science fair, so we weren't completely out of whack.

Our larval doctor went on to plow through his residency, get sick of the hospital he did the residency at, worked at the VA hospital, and some other hospital. Oh yeah, and he specialized as a shrink. Was probably relived to deal with "Normal" crazy people rather than some edge of the bell curve uber geekoids. But I think he got some perspective. Some people out there can churn through your whole college career in a few days, and generally get it down pretty good.

So if you thought you were "special", that illusion just got pulped. However, if you think such people could work around normal humans, lol, no chance in hell. More to being a doctor than being able to know everything. ;P

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