After reading the essay “anti-Intellectualism”, I think Penrod is right about what he’s claiming about “nerds”. In some ways, I think he is right For example, usually the nerds in school can be the very intelligent group of teenagers in school that shy away from other people. In some schools though, the nerds are the students who don’t try hard in school, and the kids who don’t care about learning and only go to school because they have to. These were they type of kids in my school. One of the most popular kids in my high school became valedictorian of my graduating class, as well as other well liked kids followed right behind her is class rank.

Throughout the essay, he shows statements of people in online chartrooms saying that nerds don’t have lives and only live to study, and another one says how much the person hates nerds. It’s a little ridiculous that people post these feelings online, but some people honestly do feel like this towards nerds, which is just uncalled for.

There is one part in the essay that I can really relate to, which is in the introduction when Penrod talks about the football team winning.  I have never understood why schools don’t praise students when they are furthering their education and doing it better than any other school, rather than playing a sport.

Penrod talks about some celebrities who haven’t gone to high school. Well that’s okay for them because they have one really amazing talent that people will spend money on their merchandise, or to see them perform- the average person really can’t do this. If you don’t have any amazing, over the top talents, then you might as well just stick to going to college.

For this citing Penrod used, I think its perfectly okay that he used them. He needed information and found it on those websites. The essay gave good facts and quotes.