<p>Do not be like me. Do not make the same mistakes.</p>
<p>I have graduated from electrical engineering with a 3.88 GPA, 5 publications in peer reviewed journals, a conference poster, and enough scholarships (both institutional and national) to cover tuition. I was admitted to several top graduate schools but choose to work at an international engineering firm. </p>
<p>This may sound great but heres the catch. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the brightest student in my class but i achieved what I did through hard work. Very very hard work. I pretty much just studied throughout undergrad and barely made any friends, especially female ones.</p>
<p>I thought that after i graduated and am working I wouldn't have much trouble finding a girlfriend. This is not the case at all. As you all know, there are not many girls in electrical engineering so I did not make any female friends. Nor did I really talk to girls. I'm currently trying very hard to find a girlfriend but it just isn't happening. I've joined the gym, community groups and dating websites yet girls want nothing to do with me. </p>
<p>My big erroneous assumption is that after finding a good job, i'd get a girlfriend when in fact i did not build up the social skills to do so through the years. So if you're going to school now, don't study as much as i did and spend sometime talking to girls.</p>
<p>Do not be like me. Do not make the same mistakes.</p>
<p>Your lack of girls has nothing to do with your GPA or scholarships. Your lack of girls has everything to do with you. If you have enough time to write out this post, you had enough time to approach three girls today. Go out and get rejected, and stop feeling sorry for yourself. I showed this post to my girlfriend and she thought you sounded pathetic. I’m not saying this to be mean, but to wake you up. Nobody wants to date someone that feels sorry for themselves. If you think you are a loser then that’s the same thing a girl is going to think. Stop posting and start talking… but more importantly, just stop posting.</p>
<p>Go away. We get it already. You are creepy to girls, so they avoid you. Try working on that first, then don’t report back to us about it.</p>
<p>I got through college in engineering just fine, had job opportunities afterwards and got into top 10 grad schools and still found time to get a girlfriend who I will be marrying next summer. The problem isn’t the major, it’s you!</p>
<p>EDIT: Wow, what an awesome post to be number 3,000.</p>
<p>im an engineering student now…an international one…and I study hard…no girls etc…but itl be fine and its gonna be fine with you too mate…by the way which school did you go to if you dont mind?</p>
<p>I’m going to go ahead and say that the OP and the guy above this post might have severe personality issues, and perhaps seeking professional help is the best course of action.</p>
<p>Holy shieee…
Dude, in 2ish years after I got my first job, I managed to date 6 girls – each lasted 3-4 months. Eventually 2 years ago I got into a serious relationship, which I lost recently…</p>
<p>Bottom line is there are PLENTY of girls who dig engineers… Trust me, you just gotta work on ur social skills and be funny. Making a girl laugh goes a looong way. It makes them happy (well that is unless you date a gold digger which I also happened to have exp on)…</p>
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With life expectancy getting longer, I notice that guys are getting married later and later… (notice I said guys – as girls have biological clock) lots of my co workers are getting married / got married at 35ish. Some even at 40, after they traveled the world, dated 20 girls, owns a house, got a bad ass car, basically after they live life.
Guess what, they are happier than the ones who got married early…</p>
<p>Thermo1, I’m surprised you were able to focus on studying so much, it seems like you think about girls non stop. Just go talk to a girl and stop stressing about it so much. And as bonehead said, you don’t need to report back after each little operation attempt.</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters. You’ve posted so many times on this subject! Please don’t post any more about it. Go out there and start meeting women! Just a hint, calling them “women” instead of “girls” is a good start.</p>
<p>Maybe women did not pay as much attention to us engineering majors when I was a freshman-to-junior, but I know once you were a “spring semester graduating engineering senior”, those women on campus FOUND you.</p>
<p>I think people are taking his moral a bit out of context. he’s not saying because of his major or anything. he’s just saying dont spend so much time studying and build some social skills.</p>
<p>Or is there an underlying joke that I’m missing?</p>
<p>Ooooh, this is the same bloke that made multiple threads about the bird he was pining after, thinking about giving up Carnegie Mellon for her; the guy that asked, quite seriously whether it’s harder to hold hands or kiss.
It’s not about having the most resources, but being Enterprising enough to prioritize and distribute what you’ve got.</p>