Dating Life

bluedaisy1234 · 03-21-2005, 06:37 PM

Now I don't wanna be shallow but I gotta ask. My friend and I were looking at several college guides and almost everyone of them said taht Rice is pretty nerdy (not taht I find anything wrong with that), everyone is really focused on their resume and school work (okay good work ethics) and they frown upon dating. So really? I mean I'm all about good work ethics but hey I want a nice dating life as well as a good social life as well. SO does anyone know about this? Are these guides completely bodus or true?
This really won't go into the fact whther Idecide to attend or not, but I think it's quite amusing

KrazyKow · 03-21-2005, 06:40 PM

I have to admit, I'm rather interested, too. I've hung around the music school and it seems like the students there are just planning on practicing for hours and hours, then going to class and not eating, but music schools are always weird. How is the rest of the school?

athlonmj · 03-21-2005, 06:46 PM

Oh god, there has to be normal people, right?

nspeds · 03-21-2005, 06:56 PM

I personally would not think dating is "taboo," at Rice, especially with parties like NOD.

bluedaisy1234 · 03-21-2005, 06:58 PM

nsped- my friend actually made a joke about that. I think she said something like sure they don't approve of dating but maybe it's because they appreiciate no strigs attached drunken hookups lol

KrazyKow · 03-21-2005, 07:03 PM

I sorta know a few people who go there, and I think they're all people who didn't date in high school, though I may be wrong about one.

bluedaisy1234 · 03-21-2005, 07:07 PM

well I mean many people don't date in high school... But I'm assuming tha by the time college rolls around, dating is kinda inevitable. could be wrong of course.

KrazyKow · 03-21-2005, 07:10 PM

True, but I'm sure some schools have more of a "dating scene" and a "social scene" than others. Some also have larger "no strings attached drunken hookup scenes." ^_^

nspeds · 03-21-2005, 07:13 PM

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no strigs attached drunken hookups

Music to the male ear

nspeds · 03-21-2005, 08:01 PM

Just to clarify, I do not in any way endorse one-night-stands, I was facetiously making a generalization of the male-mindset

athlonmj · 03-21-2005, 08:02 PM

I do though.

anxiousmom · 03-21-2005, 09:57 PM

I'll leave the "dating" aspect of it to Jenskate to address. I know my freshman daughter goes to lots of different themed parties, events, performances, dinners with different groups of friends and individuals.

jenskate1 · 03-21-2005, 10:32 PM

well, some people have exciting love lives, and some don't (*begins to sob* j/k!) My next door neighbor has been dating a girl who lives upstairs for quite a while, and I know of a whole bunch of month long or so relationships. Suppossedly, like 75% of rice grads marry a rice grad, which I'm not sure how I feel about. There is some dating at Rice, but not a huge amount to be honest, sorry.
There are definitely more drunken hookups than real relationships, but that's not really my style

Just don't get so drunk that you do things you'll regret.

nspeds · 03-21-2005, 10:48 PM

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Just don't get so drunk that you do things you'll regret.

This is more a principle of life than anything else

dreaming · 03-22-2005, 12:39 AM

um.. i dont get it .. kinda
(make it a bit extreme) if they are so nerdy that they dont even date, how can they manage to (or know how to) have one-night-stands??

um.. like a girl who've never dated during high school at rice, does not want to date but go for ONS?? um.. i dont get it.. i dont get it -_-
(same for nerdy boy)

btw, i dont think suddenly all people who dont date start to date when they're in colleges. it's only like 3 months differences.