<p>I'm an electrical engineering student, but have had no success meeting engineering girls. The reason I want an engineering girls is because I feel more comfortable around technology than other people, and hope to find a girl that's like that. However, the few engineering girls I've tried to know only like normal guys, and even they call me weird. Would any girl on here be interested in a guy like me? I didn't even fit in with the other nerds in high school because they were too social.</p>
<p>I hate to say this, but I don’t think you are going to find an engineering girl. Let’s put this into their perspective. Girls in engineering classes are generally surrounded by males since they are vastly outnumbered. Because of this, they have a number of choices in men, so they are going to go for the smartest and best looking. Try expanding your pool, maybe into non-engineering girls.</p>
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<p>I find most Engineering girls to be weird. I am in Industrial Engineering which is probably the Engineering major with the highest ratio of women and there is something about these girls that I don’t find attractive. I have a friend who is an Electrical Engineer, and he said that many girls in Engineering have “masculine traits” to put it nicely. Draw your own conclusions but I have found his statement to be very accurate lol</p>
<p>Or rather than assuming that all females in technical majors are somehow different than others, how about realizing that even if they happen to play more video games or watch more anime or be much more into gadgets than average, they are still looking for a few basic things in men: treating them right, making them feel good, making them laugh, etc (at least for the mature ones). In other words, if you are weirding them out, even engineering girls aren’t, on average, going to go for it. Socially awkward is socially awkward, regardless of your chosen area of study.</p>
<p>@bschoolwiz … My daughter will be majoring in Engineering in the fall. I guess I should tell her she should expect the “engineering boys” to fall of their chairs when she walks into the classroom. Tall, thin blonde with gorgeous waist length hair. Classically trained pre professional dancer. (Looks count a lot for rolls on that level) Good to be her! </p>
<p>If she is well adjusted, good looking and acts “normal”, she will definitely stand out but honestly, I don’t think she will find the stereotypical Engineering nerd very interesting. </p>
<p>I love science, I love computers but I don’t consider myself a “nerd” because I don’t have that kind of personality, don’t like sci-fi, never watched Star Wars, don’t like anime or any of the stereotypical nerdy things.</p>
<p>I can interact with most of my peers just fine but I find most people in my Engineering classes to have very boring and uninsteresting personalities. In particular, people who are super uptight, totally obsessed with minor details and no sense of humor.</p>
<p>Wow, bschoolwiz, you take the cake! I was a female engineering student who married a fellow classmate. I have taken flying lessons, gone on safari to Africa, won piano contests, etc., etc. My husband lived in Alaska, working as a lumberjack, and played guitar professionally. No offense, but we’ve probably led more interesting lives than you have.</p>
<p>Yeah, @bschoolwiz, not so true for my IE dept. We have some bombshells… you all may just have some bad water up your way. Also, I find the majority of engineering guys to be decently adjusted as well. I am absolutely not the quote-un-quote stereotypical introvert that people portray as engineering…played 3 sports in high school, military vet, had way too much fun before priorities kicked in… and I haven’t ran across THAT many people that cross the line of weird.</p>
<p>Also, star wars is awesome. I mean, lets be serious, its a war movie, in space.</p>
<p>@Twinmom2014
Engineering guys appreciate good looking women the same way any other guys does. Sure, they may be, on average, slightly more shy, but they aren’t going to be “fall[ing] out of their chairs” any more than other guys would be. They may just be slightly more intimidated to approach her for a conversation on average. Engineers are just like any other people. Just like the women in engineering aren’t somehow magically different than those in other majors, so, too, are the men in engineering looking for the same things in women. There are always outliers like the OP, but being an engineer doesn’t somehow make somebody a different type of human being with different basic instincts.</p>
<p>@Chucktown
I couldn’t agree more. I happen to be a pretty big Star Wars nut and somehow still managed to meet and marry a non-engineer. I guess I just didn’t get the memo about how engineers are supposed to act around other people, particular non-engineers.</p>
<p>LOL @kldat1… she has so many options, Penn State, UCONN, Rutgers, Binghamton. She is still waiting on some other schools who make their RD later on… mostly bigger schools because she is going to minor in dance and finding schools with both good engineering programs and dance programs were hard to find. UCONN does not have a minor…so I don’t know. It will be interesting. </p>
At most colleges, there is an unbalanced male/female ratio in engineering classes. I did my undergrad in EE. At my college, the male/female ratio was usually about 10/1 in EE classes. If you are trying to meet women in engineering, the odds are usually not in your favor. In another thread you mentioned going to large public college with a well balanced male/female ratio overall across the full school. If you ventured out of engineering classes, you’d have much better chances. I’d expect there to be some common ways that singles meet in your area such as through friends, campus hangouts, campus events, online social networks/apps, etc. There are many options besides just your classes. And yes, many overweight persons who aren’t very social do date.</p>
<p>Chuni, I am a nurse married to an engineer who was introverted (he started dating as a sophomore in college). We have been married 35 years. I am in an engineering town now and find lots of male engineers are married to female nurses.</p>
<p>You do need to expand your comfort zone and also try to develop some common interests outside of your engineering ‘nerdiness’.</p>
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<p>If you are obese but looking for a thin girl…it probably would help for you to work on eating healthy (and less quantity) and start regular exercise. There are many overweight college girls that want to be dating. Our society is 2/3rd overweight. Maybe you will find someone at a common losing weight kind of college activity, at the gym, weight watcher’s class, etc.</p>
<p>Ask others that care about you for some suggestions on how to meet women, how to dress/act/interact. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.</p>
<p>Maybe you can be on some study groups and expand your friendship circles. People often meet other people through a friendship network. Sometimes a room-mate is looking for a date for her room-mate that is not asked out. Do not turn down opportunities to widen your circle of friends - maybe a girl who is a friend may find you more interesting as time goes on.</p>
<p>A lot of girls in engineering, are… a little different. A lot are just chinese girls that are going to hang out with other chinese guys. Then you have the normal ones that honestly have their pick of whoever they want. You get down to the really good looking, smart, fun, etc female engineers and they are basically treated like goddesses. 95% of the engineering male body have no shot at all. </p>
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