<p>LEWL? well?</p>
<p>Cry yourself to sleep every night while wallowing in despair.</p>
<p>(Why does it matter that he/she is an academic rival…?)</p>
<p>Ask him/her on a date.</p>
<p>Make a move.</p>
<p>@Jimbo: What if you’re the girl though…</p>
<p>(I’m not into that whole modern woman thing where the girl pursues the guy)</p>
<p>Study date!
Or
“study date…”
;D
Idk, flirt over your GPA?</p>
<p>“hey baby, how about we sit together in the library”</p>
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I agree. It often results in the girl looking desperate/like an idiot when the feelings aren’t reciprocated.</p>
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<p>I don’t know if you’ve ever watched a TV show in the past 20 years but if you’d know that every male-female rivalry is a love-hate relationship that is made up of absurd amounts of sexual tension.</p>
<p>The OP’s problems are way cliche</p>
<p>Ask him to tutor you(a topic you already understand, but he doesn’t have to know that). You can stroke his ego and simultaneously get to know him better. It always works.</p>
<p>Hey, wanna go to the library? I’ll borrow books for you ;)</p>
<p>lol academic rival</p>
<p>only on college confidential :)</p>
<p>Somehow get him to like you? Then date, and get married. Then you’ll have super-genius children.</p>
<p>Watch the Big Bang Theory and learn from Sheldon and Amy.</p>
<p>Take advantage of the situation! A little friendly competition never hurts anyone ;)</p>
<p>You can sit around and wait a year or two for him to make a move, or you can just do it yourself. You’re the one with the crush, not him. </p>
<p>You want to be an old-fashioned girl, fine. Get your parents to arrange your marriage to him, if you can manage. He probably has good job prospects, so he might even turn out to be worth chipping a few extra quarters into the dowry fund. Think of it as an investment.</p>
<p>Sabotage his application. It’ll make him respect you.</p>
<p>^ hats off to francaisalamatt’s suggestion lol</p>
<p>My boyfriend of a year and a half is my academic rival. Whatever…</p>