Wake up JHU boys - Perpendicular Universe

So we've all heard time and time again from guys that girls at Hopkins are generally unattractive. Everyone has told or heard the myth that Playboy ranked Hopkins as second to last in its survey of how attractive the girls are. And the Hopkins men themselves have invented their own rules and terms to apply to the girl situation, such as HIV (Hopkins Impaired Vision) and the 2x-1 rule, saying that any girl that is ranked x in the real world is 2x-1 in Hopkins (so a girl that is a five in the regular world would be a nine at Hopkins). But after all this bitching and moaning, I'd like to know what's so great about the guys here.

The thing is I'm (along with most of the females I know) sick and tired of hearing all the guys complain constantly. For some reason, the guys here think they're just too good for the girls, as if they are superior in every way, especially looks. More than one of my guy friends has whined to me about the lack of quality girls at Hopkins, that they're not attracted to them because they're so unattractive, and even HIV and beer can't improve the situation (most of the time). They groan about why they didn't choose to go to some state or southern school where there are beautiful women everywhere, and instead they're stuck here. These guys claim that they can only hook up with girls under the extreme influence of some substance or in the dark basement of a frat party, and they almost always regret it in the light of day.

Well, guess what boys. I got news for you - we regret it, too.

Statistically, the odds are in our favor, considering Hopkins is about 60 percent male, so one would think that finding a quality guy wouldn't be too difficult. However, considering that most guys fall into the category of asshole, wuss, dork or just plain ugly, there aren't as many options as one would think. As a freshman girl wrote in her profile, "Finding a boy at Hopkins: the odds are good, but the goods are odd."

A huge reason for good guys going bad is the fraternity influence. It seems that the entire purpose of pledging is to force freshmen boys to conform into a certain mold of "frat guy," otherwise known as the "beer-guzzling wife beater." Just look at all the immature inter-fraternity squabbles. And we're supposed to believe these guys are "true gentlemen" and swoon?

But that only accounts for 30 percent of the males on campus. What about the other 70 percent of guys here? Well the truth is I can't speak for the guys that spend most of their lives in the library or don't leave their rooms, but there are tons of guys that don't get into fights and don Greek letters that are worth spending time with. What I'm suggesting is maybe it's time to let the good guys win. Perhaps we should try to ignore the visible ones (hard as that may sound) and go after the quieter, less obvious nice guys.

I feel the need to clarify that not all guys fall into these categories. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, like the nice fraternity guys and smart jocks and hot wusses. But if the guys are allowed to stereotype the girls in this school, I see no reason that girls shouldn't be allowed to do the exact same thing.

In the end, I think one of my friends summed it up best when she said, "Towson and Loyola girls don't come to Hopkins in bus loads because they think the guys are hot; they're just trying to land a future doctor.