Carnegie Mellon vs. Girl with possible Boyfriend [summer internship]

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<p>I've received an offer to work at Carnegie Mellon this summer on a signal processing project.</p>

<p>I'm from Canada so it was very hard for me to get this position as I can't apply for an REU. I had to compete with many Americans from top schools who the Prof wouldn't even have to pay much out of his pocket due to REU and other grants.</p>

<p>But! I really like this girl from my class who might or might not have a boyfriend. She won't be going to Carnegie Mellon in the summer. </p>

<p>So my question, what should i do?</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon vs. girl with possible b/f</p>

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<p>The signal processing project will probably improve your chances at other internships or jobs for the rest of your academic career and will probably improve your chances in getting your first professional job which will have a cascading effect for the rest of your life.</p>

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<p>I think it’s important that everyone who advises you reads your post history to see how important getting a girl friend is to you.</p>

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<p>uh this isn’t really a question, academics>girlfriend (you’re not even sure if she has a boyfriend or not), I would go to CMU, you’ll meet somebody in college</p>

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<p>Give it up thermo. That one’s a lost cause. Go to CMU and try to get a girlfriend there. You can reinvent yourself in a new setting… like a fresh start. The best part is you can cut it off when you leave. And having one GF will make you more confident, help your interpersonal skills, get you other girlfriends, and have a cascading effect for the rest of your life until you’re a Mormon married to young versions of Heidi Klum, Pamela Anderson, Halle Berry (sp?), and Cameron Diaz, and dating the Swedish national women’s luge team on the side.</p>

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<p>The guy has an internship at CMU - that sounds like it would be pretty attractive to the ladies to me. What’s his problem with women?</p>

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<p>I will find you a GF, and trade her for your CMU experience :)</p>

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<p>hahahahahahahahahahahaha</p>

<p>These never get any less entertaining.</p>

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<p>As a CMU alumni, I’d say take the internship and wait until the fall to try and find a girlfriend. Pickings can be a bit slim there.</p>

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<p>Maybe he should pick up a sweatshirt while he’s there to show off to the girls back home.</p>

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LOL. You are too good.</p>

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<p>You’re Canadian…so, can you speak French? American girls might like that so you’d have an advantage getting a GF at CMU.</p>

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<p>dude, if you’re abroad at CMU, total opportunity for summer fling. You get all the good parts about a relationship without the relationship.</p>

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<p>^ That’s what I was thinking.</p>

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<p>Pittsburgh is a large city, there’s a lot of things to do, you should be bound to meet someone there.</p>

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<p>"You’re Canadian…so, can you speak French? American girls might like that so you’d have an advantage getting a GF at CMU. "</p>

<p>I don’t speak french so that won’t work</p>

<p>“and having one GF will make you more confident, help your interpersonal skills, get you other girlfriends”</p>

<p>ya i know but i just can’t get that one GF. </p>

<p>"The guy has an internship at CMU - that sounds like it would be pretty attractive to the ladies to me. What’s his problem with women? "</p>

<p>The reason i got the internship is cause of my grades and the reason i got those grades is because i study so much that i can’t meet women. This girl in my class is pretty much the only girl I talk to…outside of my family that is.</p>

<p>Before getting the internship offer, i had other things that lead to the offer: good marks, publications, research experience, external + internal awards but…still no go :frowning: man i hope i get married.</p>

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<p>You’re doing all the right things at this stage of your life which should launch you into a good career. The ability to delay gratification is generally a harbinger of good things (like wealth). It seems to me that you’re trying too hard to find a girlfriend or maybe you’re in a school where there are few women. What people look for in a mate changes after experiencing real life.</p>

<p>I dated quite a bit in college but that was based on friendships that developed from common interests (sports). It was a LAC too which usually means far more women. My son’s campus is science and engineering and I think that the ratio is something like 15% women.</p>

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<p>disregard females, acquire currency</p>

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<p>wow, I am still in awe that this question is being taken mildly seriously.</p>

<p>there are so many options: chat over the internet with her at the internship, try and be more social just in general, etc. but the engineering forum seems like a strange place to ask… why not talk to people you are close to in real life rather than strangers who have different goals than you may have?</p>

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LOL. 10 char</p>