Before we left home for college, one of my best friends and I got into an argument over who was flirtier. Totally dumb, I know. But we decided to play a game (that was as dumb as the argument) that our guy friends play sometimes when they go on school trips: Who can get the most numbers?
The rules were simple:
1) We both had until a week after our orientation to get as many guys' numbers as we could.
2) We would report our results to a third friend, to ensure that there would be no cheating.
3) Numbers from MIT and Harvard dudes counted as two points. (My friend goes to a college in Boston.)
I'm not sure how the challenge affected my friend, but for me at least, being a relatively timid person when it comes to meeting new people, the game forced me to actually talk to people in my dorm and in orientation groups. In fact, I met my best friends at college because of the game: if I weren't expressly trying to get guys' numbers to beat my friend, I might not have even given those dudes a second thought.
In case you were wondering, I won. Did I have a distinct advantage being a girl in an engineering school? You betcha. (Though, in my defense, I didn't have classes the first couple days after orientation, so it wasn't as big of an advantage as you'd expect.) For the record, though, I'm mighty surprised at how close my friend's score was to mine.
Anyway, I just wanted to share one of the silly things that I did with my friends. Who knows? If you're having trouble meeting new people, it might help to make a competition out of it.
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