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Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by menloparkbum on Sunday June 22, 2008 @09:14PM (#224570)
Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between.
Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by Prrometheus on Sunday June 22, 2008 @10:48PM (#224644)
>Go out with as many women as possible. Once you join the startup life the women will be few and far between.

Or get one (or a few) good girlfriend(s). Also, make sure one of them is bisexual.

Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by jpeterson on Sunday June 22, 2008 @10:47PM (#224641)
This is the best advice ever. Being single while coding for a startup around the clock can be very depressing sometimes.
Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by wumi on Sunday June 22, 2008 @09:59PM (#224595)
Nevertheless, I'm quite bored, by the vapid partying (which I refuse to take part in - decimating my social life)

Doesn't seem like he may be too interested in this.

Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by menloparkbum on Sunday June 22, 2008 @10:07PM (#224601)
You don't have to do jell-o shots to go out on dates or have a social life.
Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by mechanical_fish on Sunday June 22, 2008 @10:57PM (#224661)
Amen. Do not go to the vapid parties, but do go to parties. Learn to throw the parties yourself if you have to. They don't have to be big at first -- a lot of the best parties I've known had less than a dozen people.

I assure you that somewhere, somehow, there are groups of non-vapid people on or near your campus. Find them. Try clubs of all sorts, film societies, drama clubs (cast or crew!), amateur sports, music groups, anime or SF conventions... whatever. Just find them.

Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by krschultz on Monday June 23, 2008 @09:49AM (#225102)
You don't find girls at parties. Truthfully, you don't WANT to find girls at a party. Any girl after the first month of freshman year who will hook up with someone she met at a party - has already done so. The best route is to find an activity that you like and meet people through that, then you actually have something in common and a chance to spend time talking sober. That forges real relationships, which ultimately are a lot better because you have someone to lean on not just someone to hook up with. But truthfully, having someone is important and hardly precludes you from being in a successful startup. There are 20 of us now at my startup and only 1 or 2 are single.
Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by attack on Sunday June 22, 2008 @10:02PM (#224598)
I thought the same for the first two years of college. Beware!
Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by markm on Monday June 23, 2008 @01:34AM (#224814)
This is a great rule regardless of working in a start-up.