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AlterNet: Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid →
“So whether you went (or should have gone) to the likes of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Swarthmore, Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Penn, Caltech, Duke, read on”Ah, and thus the less-achievement oriented shall inherit the earth.
Basically sums up the social awkwardness that pervades the “dating scene” (or lack thereof) at Duke. I had hopes for it getting better post-grad; way to ruin my dreams, HuffPost.
Favorite line:
Well, congratulations — you’ve just eliminated 95% of the world’s population as a potential mate, Mr or Ms Smartypants. Now, luckily, the world’s kinda big, so the remaining 5% of the gender of your choice is still a plentiful 160 million or so people. Even if only 1% of those are single enough, good-looking enough, local enough and just all-around cool enough for you, that’s over a million people you can date out there.
Still, that’s less than one in five thousand people. And if you live in a smaller city, it may be just a handful of folks who are going to meet your stringent criteria.
At this point, you have three choices:
A) Loosen up
B) Do a very thorough search all over the planet and be prepared to move to Duesseldorf OR
C) Join a monastery.
My hearty recommendation is choice A. The purpose of relationship (and perhaps all of life) is to practice the loving. No partner is going to be 100% perfect anyway, so learn to appreciate people for what they have to offer, not what they don’t. And love them for that. That’s what real loving is.
My favorite part is the line about the need to realize yourself as a sexual being or something like that, haha.
Source: mollybierman
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2arrs2ells reblogged this from kathychoi and added:
My favorite part is the line about the need to realize yourself as a sexual being or something like that, haha.
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kathychoi reblogged this from swampgirlrunamok and added:
Basically sums up the social awkwardness that pervades the “dating scene” (or lack thereof) at Duke. I had hopes for it...
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swampgirlrunamok reblogged this from mollybierman and added:
less-achievement oriented shall inherit the earth.
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