<p>Feel free to post awkward moments from your college experience here. Whether it be in a dorm, apartment, class, friendship, relationship, etc.</p>
<p>One that just happened today:
- 5 months into year
- Antisocial-ish dorm, meet no one (left door open, looked for open rooms, became shut in, blah blah blah)
- Me and roommate watching TV in our living room with door open (I have had my computer set up in here for months, it's like "my place")
- 2 girls pop head in, say Hi, say how they see me in here doing homework, how they live a few doors down, etc
- Commence a minute or 2 of awkward conversation as I tiptoe around saying OH WUSSUP NEIGHBORS I NEVER MET IN 5 MONTHS, tell them they can stop by whenever</p>
<p>I like these stories, so I hope I get some more posted here.</p>
<p>Everyone is ridiculously nice in Minnesota, so everyone holds the door for everyone else. Which leads to some awkward, “is she too far away to hold the door or should I wait?” moments, and someone inevitably gets the door slammed in their face. Just something that came to mind…</p>
<p>I know that feeling, about deciding when to hold the door open. Or when someone holds the door open for you and you are far away so you have to do a quick walk/jog to get there early enough.</p>
<p>I find it awkward to bump into someone you sort of knew, but didn’t really know. So you’re like “should I bother talking to this person, even though we probably won’t be friends?”</p>
<p>And if I do happen to fall into a conversation with that person, I’m like <em>thinking</em> this conversation is going no where. The typical “hey, how are you. I’m fine. How are things? good good…” really make me feel awkward. </p>
<p>why do people make these stupid conversations? we obviously don’t mean it 90% of the time when we say “how’s it going?” and we always say in return “fine” or “good” even though our day might be turning to ■■■. It makes no sense.</p>
<p>Oh man, I hate when that happens. I always try to hold the door open for people, and usually judge the distance based on how long I hold it. Sometimes I’m even leaving and let go of the door then see a person coming over so I dart back and hold it open lol.</p>
<p>^Right? It can be awkward to make the wrong choice.</p>
<p>Also, when you’re walking on the swidewalk or a hallway and the only other person coming towards you is someone you barely know, or don’t really know. Do you smile, say hi, pretend you’re distracted with your phone, or just continue on your way? Haha.</p>
<p>(This is doubly true if you have awkward history with the person)</p>
<p>And that moment when you’re trying to decide whether to stick with the “Hi” or if the person is “worth” 2 minutes of small-talk. I always slow down a bit and see if they do too. But it’s always really strange when you both sort of slow down but realize that neither of you really wants to have that conversation :)</p>
<p>I’m walking through the admissions office and see two girls staring at me. After I pass them, one of them runs up to me, compliments me and asks for my number for her friend. I was like… uh I don’t have a cell phone. Then, she asked for my house number. I was like… uh that would be my parents number; we both laughed and I promptly turned to leave while thinking aaawkwaaard.</p>
<p>Also, people like to compliment me a lot and it always puts me in an awkward position as I don’t know if I should compliment them back or what… I’ve had girls straight out ask me day after day to compliment them and I’ve been like lolwhy… just lead your life… love yourself and stop caring what others think. We’re chilling and all of a sudden it turns into a compliment some girl fest and I’m Mr. Quite. It’s just that I know compliments are opinions, hence subjective and useless; some people think I’m David while others think I’m Rumpelstiltskin, so I’m sick of hearing what you think. The Twilight Zone episode “The Eye of the Beholder” explains it best.</p>
<p>i go to a small school with about 4000 people and the girl to boy ratio is like a 3:1. We have this one thing where we try to get dates for our room mates and my room mate is the awkawrd shy quiet kid type of guy but pretty cool when he opens up. haha so i get his crush to go on a date with him and hes totally freaking out about everything (i had to pay since i got him the date…). we go out to dinner and both my friend and his date were completely quiet. </p>
<p>the place was kinda far away from our campus and my room mate barely says a word to her. since im out of state and im driving i dont know my way around the city haha. so i literally had to say “im lost” to try and make it less awkward. </p>
<p>the whole thing was about 3 hours and only five minute was spent talking.</p>
<p>Whenever I think I’m the most awkward person in the world, I think about guys like that and it makes me feel a lot better since I’m not that bad.</p>
<p>I feel like my calc 2 teacher is not a good teacher. Thats why I never go to class other then every thursdays where we meet with one TA and like 10-15 other students to kinda discuss and ask questions about the lecture and the hw.</p>
<p>So The first day of spring semester was a disaster. Me and a friend of mine was headin for Econ. We decided to get a coffee before going to class so went to cafeteria. We were in a hurry cause we were running late. So this one girl said something like guys I’m really in a hurry and she just cut in the line. I like joking around and messing with people so I kinda messed with her but she took it too seriously. She wasn’t one of those soft girls so she came back at me. Anyways we had this “duello” for about a minute and then I said some stuff the shut her up which were a little mean.</p>
<p>Turns out this same girl is one of the TAs for my calc 2 class. Unfortunately, she is the TA for my thursdays section. The worst thing is I didn’t remember the girl. I was really confused when I went there for the first time and she was really mean to me.</p>
<p>Most people stopped coming to that hw & discussion section. Its like me and 2-3 other students and that TA girl. It’s really awkward in there. I’m seriously thinking about going to lectures so I won’t have to go to that hw section.</p>
<p>The neighbor came again last night. It was like 10, and I was in the living room working on some stuff for my chemistry lab. The door was closed, etc. She knocks and is like “Oh I saw you were sitting there alone so I just wanted to come and say Hi.” I’m like “Yeah, I was working on something so I have to do it alone or I lose focus” and then I try to call my suitemate over who’s in his room, but he doesn’t reply. So there I am, calling my suitemate’s name a few times with her saying “Who’s that?” and then awkwardly have to say bye after he doesn’t come. </p>
<p>Then the RA who I live with is leaving the bathroom and after she leaves he’s like “Hey now, be nice” and I was like *** are you talking about and he never answered.</p>