<p>If you've written code for a roguelike game, that's a big plus.</p>
<p>Other big plusses include:
-- being male
-- being as cute as my math prof or better.
-- having integrity. (This is defined pretty oddly, and probably not in the way you're thinking. It has to do with your mind working a certain way.)
-- interest in me.
-- a sense of humour.
-- a steady supply of ice cream.
-- long eyelashes <3</p>
<p>Ooh, definitely agree with the ice cream. My add ons:</p>
<p>-- Great smile (my bf in particular has these cute dimples)
-- Being asian
-- Confidence
-- Dresses well, but not to the point of being too self conscious about it
-- Good at creative romance</p>
<p>I'm basically describing my boyfriend. <3 Apologies for making anyone gag.</p>
<p>Wow catsushhi, your descriptions match me perfectly, especially the one of being asian. SCORE. lol</p>
<p>-Intelligence (I seem to be drawn to some of the boys in my AP classes, for no reason at all)
-Hair (doesn't matter what color, as long as it's nice looking)
-Wit (able to make funny comments about anything)
-Competetive and driven (in school or sports or anything)
-Interest in me
-A little bit romantic, but not overly</p>
<p>Difficult to say. I've pretended to have my preferences, but actually I don't know if those preferences really exclude anyone.</p>
<p>After all, I was really attracted to a Christian conservative (and my social/political views are probably the polar opposite of those of a mainstream 21st century American Christian conservative).</p>
<p>But the three main things:
- Intelligence (running a thought experiment, I wouldn't accept just about anyone with an interest in me, if intelligence was perceived to be lacking). Intelligence is ill-ly defined, as individuals cannot be judged according to GPA/test scores, so it is only intelligence from my perception of it.
- Curiosity (intelligence is worthless without curiosity)
- An interest in me that is perceived to be sustainable (e.g., not just after meeting me, as people instinctively think I'm a genius when they first meet me, and are then exposed to reality)
This "sustained interest in me" subsumes a person who will not judge a cynical nihilist with Asperger's Syndrome with few activities other than reading, writing, and foruming, and who also happens to be sympathetic to a lot of ideas that are social taboo. (it's actually something I think a lot about - when to disclose my sympathies for such ideas)
- Oh, and I guess empathy counts too (it could be specific empathy)
- Honest with respect to me (I don't care if one is dishonest with respect to those who one doesn't trust); I have a clear demarcation line between those who I'm honest to, and those who I can't trust enough to be honest to</p>
<p>I'm not totally immune to social taboo, as I can't stand the thought of arthropod carcasses in my food. But I won't judge people who don't subscribe to that social taboo (that's a comparatively mild one anyways)</p>
<p>actually to be honest, Asian is usually a plus.</p>
<p>It's not in-group bias (in fact, I traditionally have a bias against dating Asians as that's what my parents want me to do; and I tend to hang around with Jews more than Asians even when there are other Asians around), but rather, it's that Asians usually have the least pronounced of secondary sex characteristics, which really repulse me - this is why I've always been repulsed by supermodels who tend to exaggerate them.</p>
<p>The current temperature, obviously.</p>
<p>I don't know, InquilineKea...have you been to IHS lately? There's a new generation of asian girls who are very concerned with make up, hair, etc. I think that some of the asian girls are just as concerned about their appearance as the white girls at our school.</p>
<p>To SDMS12, your comment made me chuckle. And lol to the comment above! (Wow, "chuckle" is such a weird word...)</p>
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<p>Hmm lol, to be honest, I haven't really socialized with a lot of the Asian girls at IHS. There certainly did seem to be a subculture of Asian girls at IHS (I only talked to the college admissions-obsessed ones, who numbered 4/5 - 2 were above my year, and 2 were my year), but I didn't seem to notice any Asian boy groups there. Actually the major reason why I quit IHS early (I almost didn't apply for academy since I <em>really</em> wanted to go to caltech) was because my year generally wasn't really college admissions focused at all (and the result was that in my year, no one even went to prestigious universities). I mostly spent my lunch hours in the library. :p So actually I kind of looked for potential dates on CC rather than IHS. ^_^</p>
<p>you're right though - a lot of asian girls do care a lot about their appearance (in different ways than whites do though) such that they go through artificial means to modify them. But by "secondary sex characteristics" I actually meant that they have less of... you know... (though I don't really like either secondary sex characteristics or artificial means to modify appearance). this is also why i generally have no opposition to online dating.</p>
<p>Haha have you heard of Tina Tan? She's like the IB idol that everyone refers to when they speak of intellectual perfection. Got into Princeton. Blah. But no one applys to ivies at IHS, anyway. At least no one I know of is doing so this year, anyway. No one wants to go to one.</p>
<p>Yeah we have an asian cheerleader this year. (Amazing!) And the younger asian guys seem to be more fashion-conscious, too. (To add on, we have a couple of asian gangsters.)</p>
<p>Yeah, well, my school is in China and all the students are Asian. And they dress nicely. </p>
<p>What I wrote above is a lie. I'm sorry. I had to include myself.</p>
<p>Haha, it's okay. :)</p>
<p>No way, schools in China have asian students?!?! NO WAY!</p>
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<p>Yeah, Tina Tan was the Asian girl I talked the most to (we shared our scores with each other too :p). Tina actually went for Harvard though.</p>
<p>IHS used to send like 3-4 students to Stanford each year, but that pretty much stopped with my year for some reason.</p>
<p>Hm, have you heard of Will Johnson? He was known to be a genius and he got into MIT and Caltech but he doesn't have ambition so he just went UWashington.A lot of people my year spoke of him as a metaphorical term for intellectual perfection but he didn't even do IB.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton....same thing! xP Kind of.</p>
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<p>Same thing at IHS, not necessarily on CC. :p</p>
<p>(oh and i edited my post above)</p>
<p>I think I have heard of the name, but it doesn't really have any significan meaning to me. Psh, didn't do IB...slacker.</p>
<p>I know somebody like that who graduated last year. Smart Russian guy, could have gone to CalTech. He even got a call from them, asking why he hadn't finished his application. But he didn't really care and just went to the UW.</p>
<p>Interesting, I guess some names don't spread around the IHS IB community like wildfire. Actually, his name did spread around like wildfire in the 10th grade Pre-IB community, then it seems to have disappeared. hm. </p>
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<p>Hm interesting, is his name Dimitry? (or something like that?)</p>
<p>Nope, Alex. But that's my brother's name! :) 'Cept he didn't didn't go to IHS.</p>
<p>hm. <em>wonders about anyone else</em>. <em>can't recall anyone else</em>. </p>
<p>hm then, i don't know a lot of people from the ihs ib community. :p</p>
<p>though my brother has his 2007 IHS yearbook, maybe i'll look at that ^_^</p>
<p>I failed (hmm wow, all these familiar names, and all the 8th grade convos i remembered...). but at least I know what you look like now :p</p>
<p>hm, me thinks i'd actually remember people better if I had a class list for every class I was in... (though by my last year, i came out of class not knowing the names of half my classmates :p)</p>