Just to add on to what others have already said … as an alum, I’ve always fondly described William and Mary as a school full of “friendly nerds”.¹
I think a lot of the people there really enjoy it because they’ve finally “found their people”, after a high school experience where there weren’t a lot of people like them. And, to your point about “all types of nerds”, it seems to be just that — interesting people who enjoy learning about each other’s interests, whether that’s improv comedy or history or typography or crew or politics or music or …
¹ After posting, I realized that I sometimes refer to W&M students as “kind nerds” and then got into a debate in my head about the semantic differences between the two classifications, and whether a correction to my post was warranted. Anyway, all of that just feels like a very W&M conversation. 