A day in the life of a Nerdfighting college student.

As this is my first post for this class, I would like to cover a few of the basic facts that will one day come in handy as I trek through this online writing quest. My name is Carrie Palmer, I am an English major with a Professional Writing minor, and I still don't know what I am going to do with my life, but more on that later. Moving on, I should probably tell you what a nerdfighter is, considering that to most, it may sound like a funny term to hear or see written down in a blog. Nerdfighters are, to put it blatantly by one of the co-founders of the community, John Green “not composed of cells and tissue, but instead made entirely of awesome”. In other words, we are just people who like a variety of things that others might find and classify as “nerdy” like Doctor Who, Classic Literature, and punctuation. Oh. We also go out of our way to decrease World Suck. It occurs to me now, that I may have a bit too vocabulary to explain. Luckily for me, John Green, and his brother Hank Green have made a wonderful video that goes over everything I may not have time to cover to fully explain. A link can be found here. I have classified myself as a nerdfighter since around 2008 and have watched the community grow. I have always enjoyed being a part of it and plan to continue to make it more a part of my life, using not only this blog, but joining some of the charities and groups sponsored by the nerdfighters and funded by their cause, which I will discuss in later blogs.