Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?
by krschultz on Monday June 23, 2008 @09:49AM
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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.
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.