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Originally Posted by lurkette
I was in it for like 2 years but I was never really an active member. I met some nice enough people but to be perfectly honest, they were a little boring. It could just be the people in our chapter. Some of the other chapters look like they have interesting committees and topic groups. But really, this one was mostly people who are really smart but with no social skills, like the nerdy guy in college who was even smarter than you but who was a little bitter and contemptuous and completely socially inept except when he was going on and on about his newest idea for a role playing game based on the battle of Waterloo..
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It's not just in your chapter. When I joined a year or so back it was the same way for me. I find that while intelligent people seemingly have a broad range of interests, when you really get down to it, they have many varied, yet specific interests. For example, someone could be interetsed in botany and sports, but when you talk to them, it turns out they really only study paleobotany focusing on the late Triasic, and skeleton racing (a face first ice luge). I can be hard to find common ground beyond being picked on in school.
If you want to meet a wide variety of smart people, you're already on TFP.