20 Things Every Fresher Should Know About Dating & College Life Before Turning 21

It has taken me three years to learn the cold truth. Why take the detour yet THESE are the simplified facts.

As you read this, look into the mirror, into the pupil of the person in the mirror.

1. Never ask, why do guys seem to care less about love and relationship than ladies do? The answer is simple: men define themselves primarily from their academic work and their accomplishments whereas ladies define themselves primarily from their relationship.
2. Men feel emotionally rejected when you reject their sexual advances. When he makes a sexual overture to you, he is doing more than asking for sex. In fact he’s saying, “Please accept me; please receive me.”
3. Men love chiqs who aren’t afraid to show that they love sex. The sexual corpse—ladies who are unresponsive in bed are complete turn-off.
4. Don’t be fooled by an articulate, well-spoken man. He may really be a frightened little boy inside who has a hard time expressing the simplest emotions.
5. If he’s not ever calling before 11p.m., he is not interested in a real relationship. On the other hand, if she’s ever flashing (missed calls), she’s not in for you. Take a walk sis, cut it off bro.
6. If a guy says he doesn’t want a relationship, he really means it (seriously). However, if a chiq says she’s already in a relationship, please note this, she needs you—it was just a feminine blurter which comes out whenever a Mr. Right rolls by.
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8. Love [hoping it exists] is rarely packaged the way you expect it to be. One of the biggest keys to making your ‘love’ last is being flexible in our expectations. Money is not love, beauty is not love.
9. It is basically much kinder to be direct with someone than pussy-foot around the truth in order to spare feelings. It is a waste of both time and emotions and energy.
10. Relationships are not supposed to be technically hard in the beginning. If that is the case, run for your dear life.
11. This particular moment—no matter how good or bad it is—will be just a blip on the radar two years on (i.e. third or fourth year).
12. Friendship requires face to face communication. Philosopher Aristotle is our adviser on this matter. He argued that good friendship—soul mate—is only possible when friends ‘share salt together.’ He meant that they sit down with each other not just over the occasional meal, but over the course of their lives.
13. Resist the virtual life. The idea that you can have one—switching gender, looking handsome, becoming perfect—has grown with second life and the like. Plato is often associated with the existence of a perfect world, which philosophers call the Forms. But he was clear that this virtual place is not the real world. To live life in all its fullness, we humans must deal with this world’s imperfections, Plato said.
14. Go with the flow. To live in a “street-light” world is to live in a world of change. Don’t resist the inevitable change. You can grab a cigarette or cigar; learn to live with it. If you can go with the flow, you’ll find tranquillity.
15. Broadcasting your unsolicited comments on Facebook after every 2 minutes is a nuisance. When almost every update is a link to your body or your photo album, you too are too much of a braggart. Even worse is the updating strangers (called FB friends) about your non-existent love live, parents, school, clubbing because this is completely being insecure idiot. Keep it real!! (Read: Annoying Facebook Friends) [real updates]e.g. Im in, what a nice shot; brushing my tooth;
16. Anything practical you learn will be obsolete before you use it, except the HIV/AIDS Unit with is irreversible and you cannot re-learn or UN-learn.
17. Campus is full of losers who can’t make out this or that because of lack of creativity; so the course you are taking is not the better off. Look around for ideas not enunciation of course name. For instance, which one of these is a good course: Boobs Psychology or Erotica Engineering?
18. Being a book-oriented, Money-oriented, Church-oriented or Desperatta doesn’t make you any better student. Get the principles of life in moderation and avoid being the extremist. (Read: 7types of College Students)
19. Getting all marks in class work or having a First-class distinction does not make you a perfect being or successful. There is more to life than meets the eye.
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21. KK, Richot and Smirnoff and Tuskers and Napoleon don’t mix well.

ALPHONCE M. MAGATI

The University of Nairobi