<p>Let's just be honest: the kinds of people who dominate these forums aren't exactly. . . social animals (we'll say). To that effect, with all of the overachieving that has to be done to get into selective colleges, it's very believable that spare time to do practical stuff stuff like having fun or dating isn't exactly an excessive commodity. Therefore, I ask, who here has a girlfriend or a boyfriend (or both if you roll like that)? I think it'd be interesting to see how we CCers stack up in that respect. I'll begin. </p>
<p>I don’t have a significant other. I have plenty of time but not a lot of beauty. </p>
<p>(Caring about academics hasn’t caused me to not have a social life. It’s more the other way around…I’m pathologically shy and even when I was little I used to read all the time because no one would talk to me.)</p>
<p>Nope. As above, it really isn’t because of a shortage of time. It’s more because I lack any courage to make a move and I’m not very good at making my intentions clear.</p>
<p>I don’t, I’m way too shy and busy to get a girlfriend anytime soon. The shyness, plus the fact that I fear being rejected, makes me too apprehensive to get the guts to ask someone to be my GF. I’m hoping to overcome this fear by the time prom rolls around in two years, but I have my doubts about that. Even if I do overcome the shyness, I’m not even sure any girl would actually like me.</p>
<p>I personally don’t by choice. Between homework and ECs I only have so much extra time and maintaining a social life and dating is not an option. Basically I chose friends. Either way these days most of my friends are guys and I wouldn’t have many options if I wanted to date somebody I was not already friends with.</p>
<p>Nope. I don’t really care about having one. Especially since I find a lot of the girls at my school annoying, and it probably isn’t worth stressing over relationships when I’ve been already stressing way too much for one person.</p>
<p>I don’t have a girlfriend. It’s not that I don’t have time or am bad looking, it’s just that I hate almost every girl in my grade, and they hate me back.</p>
<p>Outside of school, all my friends are in relationships, so yea…</p>
<p>“You flirt a lot and lead girls on because you’re afraid of commitment.”
“There are plenty of girls in our class that’d date you, but you choose to go after the ones where you know nothing will come of it.”</p>
<p>I guess they’re right. I generally lose interest in a girl after 2-3 months</p>
<p>I have a boyfriend, but it was unexpected since I did not actively look for one. I always thought that teenage trivial feelings were wastes of time and that I would never date anyone with my 6 AP’s and other commitments, but after 4 months being his gf I realized emotional support was a great driving force that keeps me sane. He’s very understanding about my lack of time commitments and my crazy competitiveness <3</p>
<p>Everyone on CC who stays single by choice should try to be available and get someone to understand the awesome feeling of having the support that moves your productiveness forward</p>
<p>I do not and have never had a boyfriend, nor am I allowed to by my parents. Even if I was allowed, I probably still wouldn’t want one. Most guys in my year and the year above me are so immature that I wouldn’t want anything to do with them romantically. I’m friends with a lot of them, but I would never actually date them. Plus with everything that’s going on right now, a relationship would be just another distraction.</p>