<p>what are your experiences with being bald in college? if you aren't bald, did you think it affected those who are in any way? i'm asking this because i'm kinda starting to go bald, you can't really see it, but it's coming :(</p>
<p>I don’t have personal experience with it, but probably nobody will notice it unless the hair loss is significant. I’ve had a couple of friends who were a little older who were starting to develop bald spots, but it never really seemed to affect them in any meaningful way. </p>
<p>This might just be my somewhat alternative taste, but I always think that guys who shave their heads and grow goatees look really cool/badass. Just be sure not to dress like a skinhead. :D</p>
<p>when it gets to be too much, i’ll shave it off or get a buzz cut…that won’t be for a while, though. i kind of think that my head shape is a bit large or odd, but i’ve come to the conclusion that i’ll just grow a beard/goatee and bulk up to make up for it. thanks for the post, was reassuring!</p>
<p>my classmate is bald, in highschool. It was odd at first and he heard multiple reactions from across the hallway. But after a few days it was all cool. </p>
<p>plus you are in college, in USA. I live in eastern europe, where people, especially kids are very intolerant. You can be ripped apart simple for wearing the wrong shoes. That said you should be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>Embrace it fellow brother of early male pattern baldness! Shave the hair do the beard/goatee and wear one of this [THIS](<a href="http://www.zappos.com/kangol-tropic-507-cap-black"“>http://www.zappos.com/kangol-tropic-507-cap-black”</a>)</p>
<p>There are far stranger things, don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Bald is very typical. Lots of people are bald. Military is bald. But I find balding kind of odd… There was a guy with a huge bald spot on the top of his head in most of my classes last year. He was cool, but I’ve never seen anyone balding so early and kept thinking he was older than he is</p>
<p>Okay heres the deal. I started loosing my hair in the front probably when I was 16, but it didn’t become really noticeable until around 18. That’s when I decided I could not live with it doing that. I even shaved my head, but me being me, and being 5 foot 4 inches tall, it didn’t make me look “touch” or anything, just weird. A few people told me they liked it but a majority probably saw it as strange and obvious because there was no covering up the areas that were receding. </p>
<p>I didn’t want to take drugs, because I heard there were bad side effects, plus it can get expensive. I found a couple natural methods around the internet. The first being Tom Hagerty’s scalp exercise. Just type it into google, the information about how to do it is free. </p>
<p>The second is called maliniak method. If you look it up it may seem in the realm of “too good to be true” but just keep an open mind. It hypothesizes that balding is caused by dht (the accepted cause of the mpb) AND a tight galea. Ever wonder why your skin feels so tight? It has been shown (i don’t have sources with me) that there is a correlation between a tight scalp and mpb.</p>
<p>So what this method does: it has you massage the areas on the side of your head where the galea is connected to the scalp. This relaxes the galea (i believe Tom Hagerty’s scalp exercise does as well). THEN, there is a device called a violet ray machine (mentioned it in the proactiv thread). It is not a laser, but rather generates an electrostatic field. There is also a study that concluded that men who were subjected to electrostatic fields directly to the scalp had more/thicker hair at the end of the trial then men who were not. </p>
<p>I used Tom Hagerty’s exercise for over a year, and i am confident that I stopped my hairloss. I have pictures that show no change in my hairline over 1 year. I started Maliniak’s method a month and 1/2 ago. With it I hope to grow back just a little bit. I am already benefiting from the violet ray in that it has practically cured my skin of acne. It really is an amazing device that is not very well known because it is officially labelled a “quakery” device. </p>
<p>What im saying is that you CAN stop it if you go about it the right way. You don’t need those drugs that mess with your hormones either. If you have any questions please just send me a private message. I can hook you up with a copy of the maliniak method or answer any questions</p>
<p>One of my friends had lost most of the hair on to top of his head by the time he graduated from undergrad. I went to elementary school with him and hadn’t seen him since then, and almost didn’t recognize him when I saw him at college. If I were him I would have shaved it-- and probably not grown a goatee because I think they’re ugly. 
But he just left it and didn’t seem to be bothered. He got really great grades and got accepted to an extremely good medical school, and I just somehow doubt he ran short of admirers because of his hair. </p>
<p>My mom’s ex husband and my best friend’s dad both had full heads of gray hair when they were 18. That sounds worse, to me! Feel like I’d rather shave or wear a hat than have to dye my hair /all/ the time.</p>
<p>I have a Very, VERY short Buzz cut. Next to being bald, lol.</p>
<p>Hmm, I don’t think it really matters.</p>
<p>I tend to dislike Mop-heads.</p>
<p>I don’t know, if we’re talking girls, some care, some don’t.</p>
<p>I don’t care personally.</p>
<p>Shave your head, get buff and be the next Jason Statham/Vin Diesel.</p>
<p>Sure you’re going bald? My hairline has withdrawn a bit but supposedly you develop a mature hairline in early 20s.</p>