<p>Can any current college students shed some light on this?
(aside from drunken frat hookups, etc)</p>
<p>... you mean there's more to it?</p>
<p>From what my friends in college have told me, things are very different.</p>
<p>Yes... very different in the sense that if they live in the same dorm building as you, then you have to see them everyday!</p>
<p>It really depends on where you go and what type of person you are.
At Kenyon there are the two extremes. I met my boyfriend freshman year and have been with him for a year and a half and expect to be for quite a long time, but I also have friends that go out and hook up with a different person every night. Opportunities for everyone!</p>
<p>At Middlebury the stat for marrying another Midd student is super high- 70% or something (my parents are a Midd couple).</p>
<p>At a heavily Greek school there is probably much more hooking up, and less commited relationships.</p>
<p>Dating in college feels very different. Suddenly you realize that you're becoming an adult, and relationships feel much more mature (at least for me). It's been hitting me that I'm 20, and that my parents got married at 23-- so soon!
I'm not saying that people are busy husband hunting, etc, but I think dating definitely takes a turn for the more serious.</p>
<p>It's more serious when you actually date (not hook up), but it's more realistic. </p>
<p>High school dating is all mushy garbage about how you want to go to prom together and then get married. (Sorry, cynical here.) </p>
<p>College dating is different... you see the person all the time. You see him when he's coming back from brushing is teeth at 3 am, which just doesn't happen in high school. You get to know people in a way that you just can't when you only take math class together and wave across the field during track/soccer practice. Somene once said that a week of college dating is roughly equal to a month of high school dating. It's a little more intense. High school relationships are often easier, because there is less to them - fewer stressors in life, fewer things to worry about, and fewer facets to the relationship. </p>
<p>Some of it is the adult thing, some of it is the independence, and some of it is that you are seeing the other person in many more ways than you would before.</p>
<p>I agree with the above.</p>
<p>Also I want to add that I think dating occurs (relationships that is) more after the freshmen year. It seems like most people use the first semester to feel things out, get involved, etc... a lot more hooking up.</p>
<p>Also high school relationships are easier because parents are there not necessarily to put a stop to things but the mere presence is often a hold-back conscious or not. Without them, relationships can get serious faster and more unexpectedly. I agree with ariesathena as well.</p>
<p>do jocks still get mad puss</p>