<p>If I were in your situation, I don’t think I would be using “negs” as frequently as I would at Georgia Tech. Southern California may be at the opposite extreme, but in general, for attractive women in the 7-8 range, “negs” are neither necessary nor recommended. In fact, normally, if you use a “neg” for those ladies, you’re likely to hurt their feelings because you are in essence teasing them about their imperfections. In an environment where ladies overrate themselves, however, “negs” become much more useful.</p>
<p>Man, I can totally agree with what fab’s saying from my undergrad experience. Many of the girls that were middle of the road in high school suddenly became hot **** when they went to college, and many of their attitudes changed to exactly the hot girls they hated in HS.</p>
<p>I believe the phenomen described in posting #17 is called glomming (a term used at Caltech). However, Caltech women are used to being the solo female in a group of students and don’t see it as unusual and act accordingly.</p>
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Cornell in a nutshell.</p>
<p>women are stupid and i don’t respect them</p>
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<p>Right back at you. :P</p>
<p>"Would anyone choose or not choose a college based on the ratio? Knowing what you know now? "</p>
<p>I wouldn’t, though I preferred a school that was more even. My second choice school was 60/40 women. I already had a boyfriend, and I prefer not to date men that go to the same school as I do anyway.</p>
<p>Now I’m wishing there was an all girls school I could have applied to in the area. Not something I ever dreamed I’d consider, but it may have been a better fit than I’d thought. I’ve always gotten along better with boys than girls, as far back as pre school all my friends have been guys, but apparently college guys are the exception. Too many pains-in-the-ass, I’ve lost interest in actively pursuing their friendship. That isn’t to say I won’t be friends with guys (I am!), if someone is nice to me that’s great and I’ll be their friend, but I used to purposefully seek out guys over girls to befriend just because we got along so much better and that was a reason to look for a more balanced gender ratio, but that’s no longer the case. So, in that case, an all girls school looks a lot better than it used to.</p>
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<p>oh no i don’t actually believe that. i’m just trying to fit in with the rest of the thread. </p>
<p>ahem. women sure are getting uppity, guys . . .</p>
<p>“Rest of the thread”? I never said anything to the effect of, “women are stupid and i don’t respect them.” Quite the contrary, in fact, as I explicitly stated that it is entirely rational, normal, and expected that at Georgia Tech, the women would behave as they do. Given that they’ve adjusted their behaviors in response to the environment, I see no reason why men must continue to employ strategies that are ineffective given the environment.</p>
<p>I used to joint-enroll at a university that was about half an hour away from where I lived. The ratio was much more balanced, and it actually was easier to talk to girls. And, I hadn’t even heard of “negs” at the time, so of course I couldn’t use what I didn’t know. Correlation or causation, I don’t know, but it was pretty obvious that girls were easier to approach and were friendlier when approached.</p>
<p>The Game does not promote misogyny or chauvinism in any way. It simply encourages men to realize that insanity can be defined as doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. If supplicative behavior has gotten you no where, stop thinking that it’ll work next time or the time after that. It won’t, so why not try a more confident and playful approach? That’s true anywhere, but it is especially true at a school where the ratio is 2:1 men-women.</p>
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<p>I feel like this about mine too, and I’m told I’m wrong…maybe I’ll meet these other delightful folk some day.</p>
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<p>Just correcting some misinformation in the OP, for benefit of other readers.</p>
<p>Barnard is all-women; strong relationship with Columbia University.
Bryn Mawr, all women; strong relationship with Haverford College. </p>
<p>Make-up of the Five College Consortium in Western Massachusetts is as follows:
Amherst, Hampshire, and UMass are co-ed.
Smith, Mt. Holyoke are all women.
There’s a lot of cross-course enrollment in the Five College Consortium among those 5 schools.</p>
<p>Carry on…</p>
<p>Yes, paying3tuitions, that is exactly what I meant. The consortiums have schools that are coed along with schools that are exclusively women, thereby skewing the ratio in the consortiums. In some cases, these relationships are so strong and the colleges so close together that one can barely tell where one college begins and the other ends (as in Haverford/Bryn Mawr and Columbia/Barnard).</p>
<p>I hate you all, my school is something like 65% male. And since it’s so cold, it’s impossible to go out and meet the other 35%.
I guess that’s what I get for going to a techie school though.</p>
<p>The Game… Oh boy. Mother****** should have kept that **** to himself. I read that book and immediately thought that a bunch of college and high school guys were going to run with it into the wrong end-zone. People have far too simple a view of the whole negging business, and unless you are an extremely interesting person to begin with (peacock theory) and have something to show after you let loose with the negging, you are just going to be dead in the water. Like “Oh, you have an unusual freckle on eyebrow,” and then the girl looks at you oddly expecting Mr. Sauves McCool to lead into something, but we all know these dumbass guys are just going to follow it with like “… yeah and my name is Leroy. Nice to meet you.”</p>
<p>Ruining it for the rest of us, I say.</p>
<p>my school is actually around 60% female. </p>
<p>However most of the girls on campus look like dudes. So I would say its only about 40% female.</p>
<p>This is interesting. I haven’t ever felt that female to male ratios have ever had any effect on academic performance or stability in the college environment.</p>