<p>dreadlocktear – I am serious – my daughter is always hanging with guys. I’m not talking about dating - she is in a committed relationship with a guy who attends college in Boston - but she always had guys for friends, and she seems to be continuing the pattern at Barnard. Obviously it is easier to meet girls. But we don’t have a bunch of guys her age living in our house or on our block, and she never had a problem with the idea that she had to get out of the house in order to meet guys when she lived at home… so I don’t think she finds it all that inconvenient to go across the street at college. She has guy friends at Columbia and also friends at NYU – she pretty much goes down to Greenwich Village every weekend so she doesn’t find it inconvenient to meet up with her NYU friends. </p>
<p>Now maybe because she is not hoping for romance it is easier for her to meet guys – she isn’t scrutinizing their qualities as future husbands, or expecting them to make commitments – she’s just hanging out and doing fun things. For example, she went to a Yankees game with a guy friend from Columbia last week. (She says she can buy baseball tickets through Barnard for $5 each… and she says going to Yankee stadium for a game was really cool.) </p>
<p>I guess that’s a good hint in how to meet boys: in general, baseball tickets work better to attract them than ballet or theater tickets. ;)</p>