YOUR romance
The Least Hopeless Places Text // Danielle Baker and Kierston Rusden
Maybe you dress yourself in heels or a tie and go to parties to pick up the one who catches your eye. Or maybe (if you’re old enough or have mastered a fake), you finally hit up the bar scene. Either way, we all know how difficult it can be living to find love in a city and well on Emerson’s two-block campus. We went around campus to ask Emerson students where they go to get their flirt on. Based on our findings, these are the least hopeless places:
Marisa Perkins 2014, Interactive Media
I go to other schools to find other boys. I tend to charm the pants off them...figuratively. Mallory Meyer 2015, Journalism
I usually hear about lesbians through friends, or I go to clubs like GSA or BAGLY which are obviously for gay people. I have the best success at those kinds of clubs. But now that we’re in college I usually just find people through class. I ask the person out first and hang out with them to test the waters. I just act natural. I mean, if I’m not myself then they won’t be legitimately attracted to me and vise-versa.
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Chelsey Moody 2014, WLP
Elsa Hsieh 2013, Marketing Communications
I go to parties and sporting events. I’m too shy to approach people, so I’ll wait for them to approach me. My method is smiling and always being approachable.
I’ve found success through Facebook messaging. I’ll see someone I like that I’m too shy to talk to at first. My method is to always ask them stories. People love talking about themselves. If you keep talking to them about them, they’ll stay interested.
Hilary Kee 2014, Marketing Communications I go to Machine with my friends for fun, but otherwise talking to girls at parties and being genuine and interested in interactions with others works best. Sometimes I’ll just swoop and pounce though (kidding... kind of).
Timothy Taylor 2014, Film Production
I don’t really go out to certain places to find certain girls. I “find girls” through going out with my friends. The method is simple: conversation. Talking with people to find interests.
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Erin Mahoney 2015, Broadcast Journalism
I mostly go to other schools around here. On the weekends my friends and I go to Northeastern and Suffolk parties. I think it’s easy to find guys there because a lot of guys at those schools are chill and straight.
Regina Lutskiy 2013, Entertainment Marketing
I’m a bartender and have impressive skills in that department. If someone tells me a drink they like, I can suggest something they’d like even more. I strike up a conversation, offer to buy a drink and take it from there.