<p>Everyone was cool and liked sports? What? EVERYONE here was a nerd in high school. Everyone. Some of them don’t want to admit it and try to be cool, we be know better. There are probably a lot of people who were into sports in high school, but there are also a lot who aren’t. If you like techie stuff you will take techie classes with techie people, maybe join techie clubs, and it’ll be pretty easy to meet other techie people. There are plenty of techie people who are far from “cool,” aren’t especially athletic, and who will want to meet other techie people. There are a LOT of people here on campus so it’s very, very unlikely that you won’t find a group of people where you fit in well. Now, granted, that might not happen the first day, week, or even the first quarter. I mean you will meet SOME people who are techies (or fuzzies even!) who will be friends, but it might take a while to meet the people you’ll still be friends with years down the line. But it’s that way for everyone. So don’t fret! </p>
<p>BTW, part of it is probably people trying to be cool. When meeting people for the first time and being in a college setting for one of the first time, it’s not uncommon for people to try to impress each other. After a week or month or so most people give that up and realize it’s rather silly. When they realize it’s cool to be smart at Stanford they will probably let their guard down a bit.</p>