Quote Originally Posted by mbncd View Post
I hope you'll choose a name because you like it rather than because of others' reactions to it. Names we choose for ourselves can be our truest representations of what we love or want or respect. I think that's really awesome and in no way should it ever be based on what another wants from you... Your name is about you, more so even than your birth name which you had no control over. I really hope that everyone can love their own name, the name that they came up with to express themselves as.

Being "a nerd" isn't anything to be ashamed of either, it just means you have loves and interests in the world around you. What's wrong with revelling in the miracles (scientific or otherwise) of the universe? I'd say nothing at all is wrong with that!
/hug