For most of my life, I was a socially inept introvert. At any given time during the weekends, one could find me in my room playing video games or reading a book. The effort I made to make friends at school was minimal and my conversations topics were limited to school and video games. I had some friends, but I would describe them as lukewarm. The friendship was never tight or meaningful. Although I wanted to, I never had the courage to branch out past those of similar gender with interests that directly corresponded with mine. It didn’t help that my interests consisted of science fiction and related media. To put it bluntly, I saw myself as a geek with no social skills, and I was not at all satisfied with this distinction. Something had to