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The irony of college..

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disclaimer: Note, in this thread is not particularly meant to ask for advice, so don't be dissapointed if you give some and I don't follow it.


Okay, we all know that college is a time where meeting women is seemingly perfect. I mean with the classes that we have with them, and the fine selection inside the dorm that we live in, and other clubs, acitivities, friends associations, etc, we have a lot of access to women.
And even more so, there are thousands of them here, so the selection is enormous, and you have plenty of opportunities to meet and get to know them.

College, a wonderful place to meet women, and perhaps maybe the most wonderful opportunity in your lifetime, especially if you are a conservative Christian like me (at a Christian school)


Ironically however, I'm not sure if it is my school or my major in particular, or what, but I have absolutely NO time to meet women! I swear, I am working myself up the wall, trying to get homework done in all my classes, and even when I do take the "short, easy" way out on an assignment, it still takes the typical amount of time that the professors say it should.
So.. school already takes up more time than a full time job. Plus I'm working about 10 hours a week outside of that,

But the even worse part about homework is that although you might only actually spend 4 hours a day doing it, or whatever, you have to space it out over 6-8 hours, because your brain gets so frickin tired because the work is so dang intensive that you need frequent rests. (I swear I can only do 50 minutes of work at a time, and then I at least need a 20 minute break, usually longer)

All I am is a Psychology major and a Business minor. taking 17 credits this semester. Have to maintain a friggin B+ to maintain my scholarships to go to this friggin expensive private school (ironically a private christian college, probably is the best grounds for meeting Christian girls, even tho the cost is so dang high)

and.. quite frankly these things consume all of my time:

Homework
+Homework breaks
+Sleep (if I dont get enough of this I will fall asleep while trying to do my friggin homework)
+Time attempted trying to calm my anxieties and thinking about life and all
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= A very small amount of time left for doing fun stuff, Definately not enough time left for meeting girls or for getting into a relationship.

I somehow have a feeling that if I want to take an economically efficient amount of credits (a high number per semester, cuz this school is expensive)
then I will probably be experiencing this all the way throughout, (unless i change to a communications major or something)


Quite honestly, this gets me in the mood to quit college in general so I can finally get a girlfriend,
Or at least if anything transfer yet again to another school, maybe one a little easier and a little cheaper.
In either case what I'm doing now obviously isn't fun, and the hot girls at this school are nothing but a tease, cuz I will never have any time to get to any of them.

I dont know what it is, maybe I'm just really slow and inefficient at doing homework, maybe I spend too much time thinking about other stuff, maybe college and me just weren't meant to be, but this sucks.

Can anyone else relate to this?
 

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I can't help but chuckle a little after reading this....no offense intended of course. The idea of quiting college to get a girlfriend seems like you are missing the point. Wouldn't you want to get your college degree so that you can make that money and take out all those "hot girls" that you mention at your college? I work at a private University and attended a private university and I don't think that I felt like you did. They always that if you are looking for something, you will never find it. But if you are at peace with yourself and your situation, it will find you. Dude relax, take some "no doz" or whatever you need to get through it and try to have fun at the same time!
 
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Silly, the key to finding a girlfriend is to not look for one. Then because you are not looking, you see women as more people rather than potential mates. Then they can see the real you, and you feel more relaxed around them.

If you get to know a person who happens to be female, casually ask them out. If you don't have time, then ask to study for class with her and some friends.

Of course I'm female, so I don't know if this will work at all. :p
 
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I can't really relate to your story, other that to say that it was worse for me as a freshman and sophomore, but got easier my junior and senior year. I majored in Psychology, and as I moved through my classes, I realized that there was alot of overlap in content, and that made it much easier.

But try not to sweat the girlfrient thing. It'll happen. You may find someone in one of your classes, or working on a class project, or maybe over the summer. The point is, it's been my experience that I used to meet people when I least expected it. It can happen - even when you're overworked...:)

Hang in there man.
 
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Sheseala said:
Silly, the key to finding a girlfriend is to not look for one. Then because you are not looking, you see women as more people rather than potential mates.

Of course I'm female, so I don't know if this will work at all. :p
I give this advice all the time. Be a friend first. Be trustworthy and honorable. If later on you find some mutual attraction, all the better. But if not, that's fine too.

Plus, woman can smell desperation - and they don't like how it smells :p
 
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Man, the point of college is to learn. If you don't do this, chances are you wont be able to make a decent living (especially with all the federal cutbacks to important programs that Bush is impliminting, like to Sociol Security, ect) meaning you will never get the girls.

It's not that money is the key to getting girls, unless you have absolutly no looks, and no personality, and no confidince to begin with, in which case you need loads of money, which you doubtlessly wont get unless you finish school. Of course it helps to have some money, as no girl want to bail you out on a check for dinner after you have promised them the night on the town. The least they will expect is a present every now and agian, like at christmas and their birthday, and if you are feeling romantic, some flowers to show you care every once in a while.

Couple this with confidence, and you have everyhting you need. Confidence is really, to be honest, the only thing you need, as a girl will forgive a little rough edges if you have self respect and self confidence (Plus, she gets the chance of smoothing out all the edges). Also, it doesn't help to stay in shape, and take care of yourself. No girl wants to date a slob.

As for school, make sure you stay on top of it, as that has to come first. Trust me, no girl is wasting your life over, which is what will happen if you drop out, unless you have fabulessly rich parents and a great inheritance.

I am in college, and in a way, I cna relate. I am a double major, and have loads of work that I have to do. But, I still find time for my frineds, and make time when necissary. Besides, you always have the option of combining bussiness with pleasure, so to speak. Ask a girl out to help you with your work, as a study group or something.

But if you want to meet girls, first and foremost, be confident (without being arrogant) and be relaxed. All else will fall into place.
 
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Yeah, you only get chicks when you don't want chicks. And don't try to fake like you don't want chicks, cos chicks can smell that on you. Wily devils. What I suggest is that you build up a healthy misogyny, like I have, so that not only do you not particularly want a girlfriend, but when you have one you'll be half-hearted about it and kind of miss being single, so when she inevitably breaks your heart and mashes it into fine pulp on the floor, you will feel slightly relieved.

Sorry, what was the question again?

My university semester starts in three days. I just spent $550 on books, I'm working 32 hours a week and doing five papers, one of which is Japanese, which I'm relatively hopeless at. I'm less worried about having time to meet chicks and more worried about having time to sleep.
 
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I feel your pain... I'm taking 24 credit hours. However since a few of them are laser classes I'm in class/lab at least 32 hours. Then I have a work co-op that eats up 10-14 hours a week. Then I have a 15+ page lab report due every week. Then the associated studying/homework that goes along with 7 classes. Usually leave at 8-9 and get home at 5-6, if I'm lucky I can sneak off to lunch somehwere in there since on all but tuesday I have classes for 7-9 hours straight.

Luckily there are very few women in my department and none that I'm interested in. Sometimes it feels like guys are looking at me because I'm the cutest thing they've seen all day o_O

I average about 3-4 hours of sleep a night on weekdays, 12-18 on weekends. It's only one more semester like this. Funny thing is it's easier than when I took 15 hours of solid laser classes... that was twice as tough as 24 hours of regular classes with only 3 laser classes.

Usually my free time is spent playing online games with friends, spamming forums, or staring at the wall (my ghetto meditation).
 
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p60 said:
Quite honestly, this gets me in the mood to quit college in general so I can finally get a girlfriend,
Or at least if anything transfer yet again to another school, maybe one a little easier and a little cheaper.
In either case what I'm doing now obviously isn't fun, and the hot girls at this school are nothing but a tease, cuz I will never have any time to get to any of them.

I dont know what it is, maybe I'm just really slow and inefficient at doing homework, maybe I spend too much time thinking about other stuff, maybe college and me just weren't meant to be, but this sucks.

Can anyone else relate to this?
What's the hurry? Do NOT quit college just to get a girlfriend. Do NOT get serious with the first girl that comes along while in this mindset. And whatever you do, don't get married just so the two of you can boink. You're in college, doing what you'e supposed to do there... I wish I could afford to be in that position! You've got your whole life to find your mate... what's the hurry? Just chill and soak up the info...
 
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I can relate, though I'm only in high school.

Last semester with all my AP classes, I had immense amounts of homework. Meanwhile I was trying to master the guitar so I can play like Ynwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai and all them. So I ended up dropping all my AP classes for the next semester so that I could allocate more time to my music studies. As soon as I get jobs and stuff, I probably won't be able to spend as much time on music.

Nevertheless, I still am not sure how this relates to apologetics.
 
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