Nerds in England are a bit different than I expected

This is not necessarily a bad thing. For context, I’m in a very nerdy course at a uni which is well within the top 5 for said course. I’ve always considered myself a nerdier type of person but over here I feel so out nerded? Lol. I feel like out of all the English people everyone is so awkward (which is completely fine!) and lacking in hobbies and interests outside of their specialisation. However, I don’t feel this with any of the Europeans, Asian, Africans, Americans, etc that I’ve met in my course. I am a really social person and have had at least a good conversation with almost everyone in my course by now and do my best to keep up with as many people as I can.

My course does have a lot of English people and idk it just feels like I’m meeting copies of the exaggerated version of nerds I thought we’re only real in movies. It’s honestly a bummer because I was looking forward to having a good group of friends in my course that I could do literally anything else with.