| I'm from Australia and my situation is probably the weirdest one in this entire thread, that I haven't seen addressed in this thread and didn't expect to. For starters, they don't have fraternities or sororities in Australia or the UK and dorms are usually taken for students who are Aus residents but live far away.
There isn't a dorm culture, a varsity culture (as in playing a sport for your university), or a fraternity - sorority culture in Australian or UK universities - colleges and dorms are usually taken for students who are Aus residents, but who live far away. There's also quite a high number of international Asian female students, who only associate with each other on campus and speak in their language.
On my campus, people just attend classes and leave. They don't stand outside talking to each other and there's not a lot of socialising, as people are walking on campus to and/or from a lecture or class. College – universities are hard, because where women off campus can say they have a boyfriend and lie or be honest about it, at college – university, they can also say that, plus that they can't talk, as they have to go to a class and/or they're currently swamped in studying, so to leave them alone. This can be true, but it can also be made up as well.
I missed out on attending university when I was in my late teens and am in my mid 40s (single, with no kids and have never married) so at the moment, I'm still trying to deal with the shellshock and weirdness of being an older person, on a campus where 98% of the students are aged between 17-25.
I also feel it's more important at the moment to get on top of my studying and passing my 1st semester, as I'm not that confident with what I'm doing, so that as much as I'd like to do approaches, I can't, even though my university is a veritable smorgasbord of women, which is frustrating.
This leads me to ask, if a person is serious about getting good grades (like distinction, high distinction), unless you're an elite student, there's no way you can do that, while say doing 20 on campus approaches a week and going on maybe
2-4 dates a week. Something has to give and that's socialising.
If it helps, there's no one doing pickup on this campus, or at least I haven't seen anyone, as the Aus pickup community is much smaller than it is in North America.
I don't believe in dressing like a 17 year old and don't, but I have the advantage of not looking my age at all and can pass as someone aged from 25-30, as I look after myself. This is important, because if and when I do make an attempt at approaching, I know I'll probably get qualified on my age, as there's no way I could get phone numbers and dates, by admitting my real age. I'd have to lie. It may be immoral, but the harsh reality is that women are incredibly disqualificative when it comes to age and it has nothing to do with me having limiting beliefs.
I'm also trying to deal with the weirdness of 'do I want to approach a chick who's 18?'. The answer is no, as most are too skinny and have boobs that are too small for my liking, but I've seen and see ones with more meat on them, with bigger boobs. In Australia, 18 (not 21 like in the US), is the legal drinking age, but I don't drink.
Asian female students (particularly if they're international ones, not Aus born Asian ones) would be harder to open. They tend to only mix with each other and speak in their country's language whenever you walk past them on campus. You don't see them mixing with male or female Caucasian students. Most are too skinny for my liking, but there's many Asian female students who are quite hot.
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