Is Caltech a boring place to be at?

mathboy98
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:15:32 +0000

that are looking for intelligent, experienced, attractive, socially competent members of the other gender may have a hard time finding them.



This seems pretty harsh to me, but I am nobody to judge or know what it really is like. If it really is like that, it can definitely be rough, unless your definition of “experienced” and “socially competent” in the above are extremeley demanding!

I also might add that it would surprise me if many college students at any school have, in high school, “seriously” dated before. From what I know, many consider the early years time to fiddle around aimlessly, and not even get legitimately useful experience.

Admittedly, I have a bias that a lot of things get straightened out more by time, and what one does or doesn’t do in the years of middle and high school have minimal impact, as long as one has some basic social interactions and challenges oneself to some degree academically.

The image I was trying to build there was someone who studies physics well, is possibly not a blatant smooth-talker, and is nice and has good basic social-skills + looks decent. This is far from what would appeal to the masses, but I’d think such individuals are numerous enough and would be appealing to one another.