My grandson in college says that it is impossible to meet girls

[DFW]

56. I wish I could help, but I'm just too far removed by now

I was class of 1974, and it was just a different world back then. Besides, I was an ordinary-looking (at best! LOL) white southerner at a northern school, rooming with two black friends from high school, and whose main non-academic interest was the balalaika orchestra. In other words, six kinds of weird. And even I managed to meet women. If I could, hell, I figured any straight guy could. The gay scene was already pretty active already there, too (this was Philadelphia), so no one who wanted to come out was given a hard time about it.

My daughters both went to college in the USA, but their graduations are now also 10-15 years in the past. At the time, they never mentioned any such issues, although I can’t imagine that even today a halfway attractive, straight female student would have trouble meeting guys if she wanted to.

I didn’t meet my permanent partner at college, but I did meet her about two months after graduation, albeit 4500 miles away, and speaking a language I had only started learning while in college. See? A college education is good for something after all!

Even after all that, I have no idea where your grandson goes to college, or what kind of people are there, and times are not what they were, either. I can only hope for him that his luck improves. That, in my experience, anyway, always happened when I was trying least, if that means anything.