I realize that this is my third post today, but the novelty hasn't worn off yet, and it's Saturday.A few months ago my roommates and I conducted a little survey. We decided to try to find out why some girls are date magnets and others are perpetually "good friends." Our survey was, unfortunately, inconclusive. Apparently the only difference between the girl you ask out and the girl you ask for advice is a nebulous "x factor," and apparently some girls have got it and some girls don't. It isn't always a matter of looks or common interests or personality (maybe it's smell, eh, Lili?) but something makes some girls the stuff that dreams are made of while my beautiful roommates and I are the BFFs (that is, until the boys get married, at which point we become invisible.)
The thing is, we have a LOT of guy friends. Last winter we had to hide in our rooms for awhile because we got tired of the constant flow of men in our living room. Most of us had a few guys after us during most of the semester (that semester. The current state of events doesn't seem to be quite so favorable . . . but I'll get to that), or at least so I've been told. Why, then, do so many of us remain so firmly single (and largely dateless)? As far as I'm concerned, my roommates are beautiful and hilarious (we are the hottest thing since soup, and see our quote wall for evidence of our witty tongues). Are we, as some seemed to think, so amazing that we are intimidating? Doubtful, unless every boy we know is a pansy. Are we unappreciated because we are ever-present and our glory has been dimmed? (Sorry for that bit of sarcasm.) Could it be that someone is unaware of just how single we are? Do they think that because we are so single we are incapable of having relationships? (How do we know if no one will try us?) I'd attibute it to our feminist tendencies, but that shouldn't hurt anyone but Miri and me, and Miri has a boyfriend now.
This may go down as one of the great mysteries of BYU, so if you want to be a detective, now is your chance.
