<p>I've been meeting with Profs at top schools regarding grad schools. The profs are really nice and always set me up a tour of the school + lab. A grad student from the research group will take me on these tours.</p>
<p>I've visited 4 schools so far and the grad student the Prof has set me up with is always a really pretty girl. I know this is not representative of engineering.</p>
<p>Are these Profs trying to trick me? Or is it a coincidence?</p>
<p>In case anyone forgot, I'm in electrical engineering.</p>
<p>Grad school girl goggles kinda like beer goggles.
You may be perceiving them prettier than reality.
Maybe the boring tour is better when a pretty girls present it.
Are you complaining?</p>
<p>“You may be perceiving them prettier than reality.”</p>
<p>ohh are you saying that because they go to a top school i think they are prettier than they actually are?</p>
<p>I guess that kinda makes sense…</p>
<p>“Maybe the boring tour is better when a pretty girls present it.”</p>
<p>The tour is definitely better when a pretty girl presents it! no questions there. </p>
<p>“Are you complaining?”</p>
<p>I’m not complaining but I’m wondering if the Prof purposely picks out the prettiest female grad student in the research group and assigns all tours to her.</p>
<p>Haha, I bet profs would do that on purpose, though most of the profs I talked to at Ga Tech, UIUC, Purdue, TAMU and a few others gave me the tours personally. Now that I hear this, I kind of wish they had set it up with a hot girl.</p>
<p>We had an engineering session at an open house last week, and my husband and I laughed at how they had a very cute girl give the presentation. She looked like she could have been a head cheerleader. The funniest was when she talked about the clubs she was in. She said she joined the Swing Dance club, and was surprised to find that a lot of upperclass engineering guys were in the club. Duh!</p>
<p>ya just to clarify, most profs gave me a tour themselves. However, they will also encourage me to talk to thier grad students. This is where the hot girl comes in.</p>
<p>@ Montegut </p>
<p>So that girl was in engineering? And I’m not crazy? They really do the choose the best looking girls for the job of tour guide?</p>
<p>Thermo1-
I don’t think you are being set up, maybe a coincidence the women were available.
Isn’t this your dream come true-meeting friendly, outgoing, smart women who are interested in the same field of study as yourself?
Quite intoxicating, I’m sure.</p>
<p>You’ve started at least three or four threads along these lines. How about concentrating on your studies and then just seeing what happens socially? If these women (when you get to grad school, they’re women, by the way, they’re not girls) knew that you were speaking of them in such an objective way, I think your chances with them would be over.</p>
<p>I sometimes have a hard time calling the females around here women, because I feel like I am addressing my mom or something when I do it, even though they are only like 24ish.</p>
<p>Sometimes that cute girl tour guide backfires, though. We’ve had many friends go on tours of UVA, and they were totally turned off by the airhead girl tour guides.</p>
<p>Now, if they put a smart girl as a tour guide, then they’re in business.</p>
<p>I will add, when we went to the honors program open house, all I could think about was that show The Big Bang Theory. That, and the Triumph the Insult Dog skit at the Star Wars premier, but that may be a little too out there for readers of this forum. If you’re interested, it’s on You Tube.</p>
<p>Ahaha. I toured at Wellesley College… those girls were pretty and smart :D! Made me want to join them ;-;… but… it is an all girls college… so I doubt boys have ever toured there D: and I dislike campfires and talking about my feelings to giant groups of estrogen. Sorry. It is just me.</p>
<p>You are one very strange individual. I would worry less about “pretty girls” and more about learning how to not be a creep if you actually want to get with these “pretty girls.”</p>
<p>I’m actually in Canada so we don’t have a division between private and public universities are far as I know. Why do you ask? Is one more likely to use hot girls to trick me?</p>
<p>@Montegut</p>
<p>Ya, all the girls on the tours know what they are talking about. They are a member of the research group so not really airheads.</p>
<p>@aibarr</p>
<p>I already concentrate a lot on my studies…maybe thats why i don’t get to meet girls often. </p>
<p>thermo1- Public universities in the US tend to have larger PhD programs so a larger number of research groups and women
Best of luck in choosing your program</p>
<p>How about joining in on some sort of extracurricular activity? Are you musical? Athletic? Neither? Find a local play. Try out for the play, or be a tech and work backstage and hang out with the actors. Take up knitting, or basketweaving. Archery. Anything. There are plenty of extracurricular activities that don’t require any discernible skills.</p>
<p>“Friendly” plus “smiling” plus “giving people personal space” yields “non-creepy.”</p>
<p>Try the friendly/smiling/giving people personal space thing along with one of the extracurriculars that you are about to start in on, and you should meet people. Just go with the goal of meeting people, not honing in on girls with your antennae and getting your mandibles around them. Just meet people first, make friends, and when you find a new friend that’s a girl that you think you like, see if she wants to go for coffee or dinner or something.</p>