Comments on: The meek shall inherit the prom

The meek shall inherit the prom

Kickstart70 — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:15:47 -0800

Steuard Jensen for Prom King! Three nerds get the resident high school science geek on the ballot for Prom King, and...well, you'll have to read the story to get the answer. Like in fiction, sometimes in real life the protagonist/hero comes from the most unexpected position.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:28:27 -0800

I knew that since it was a dance and all I should dress up a little, so I wore a nice purplish-red wool sweater (which Colleen was allergic to, as I learned later) and a pair of grey slacks. Ah, high school.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:56:52 -0800

I feel really bad for any child saddled with a name like Steuard. But I probably would have picked on him if he went to my school. You know, so they wouldn't pick on me. And I like stories like this.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:08:27 -0800

Great story.

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:09:19 -0800

> I feel really bad for any child saddled with a name like Steuard What about Betsy Beverage?

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:18:44 -0800

Thanks for cheering me up after all the bad news this week...

By: sdrawkcab

sdrawkcab — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:38:59 -0800

Vote for Pedro.

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:47:13 -0800

that guy needs an editor. i really thought there'd be some much more dramatic climax. it's all denouement.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:53:25 -0800

...and then, unable to get past his glories of High School, he grew up to be a meth addict and prostitute. And died. Alone. The end. Ah. That's better.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:56:36 -0800

My senior year I did lose Class Clown by one vote - to my best friend.

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:19:23 -0800

tkchrist, that's sorta what i'm after, but i had more of a "carrie" type story in mind

By: aznblader

aznblader — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:38:12 -0800

At my high school, the year after I graduated, our homecoming king was a tiny little asian man who was a finalist at the Intel science search for chemistry. He's at Harvard now.

By: crunchywelch

crunchywelch — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:42:31 -0800

Steuard is like some sort of extraordinary everyman ubergeek. His name is Steuard, he was president of the math club and prom king in high school, is a well known tolkein scholar and is also a physicist apparently working on some string theory:

To give just a quick overview, I have worked on some problems related to tachyon condensation in various string theories and boundary states in compactified conformal field theories, and we are currently studying the effects of membrane instantons in heterotic M-theory and the effects of worldsheet instantons on Kaluza-Klein monopoles

Right. Some more Steuard related links: The Great Balrog Slippers Debate Sauron's Diary String Theory Slide Presentation Tom Bombadil Wikipedia Entry I always like finding interesting characters out there doing cool things, thanks for the post...

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:31:12 -0800

Thanks for the link. Good story. His friends were PR geniuses :)

By: yankeefog

yankeefog — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:13:00 -0800

In some ways, the low-key ending makes the story more appealing. Were this the Hollywood version, the jocks would have been furious and the cheerleaders would have hated him. In real life, it seems most of the school (including the head cheerleader) genuinely liked and respected this nerdy guy. I'm always glad when my fellow nerds get the respect we deserve.