A Semester Without Boys Part 2
Ellie Toth
My friend’s promise to herself of a semester without boys is turning out to be more difficult than she thought it would be. A couple of weekends ago, a boy walked all the way back to east quad with her to just walk all the way back home. And she has mastered the art of strange responses to a booty call late a night. Some of her responses have included repeatedly saying, “what” or “ugh.” “Those kinds of responses usually drives them away,” she says. Unlike past semesters, she has been asked out on several dates by several different people. “It has been interesting,” she says, “I don’t know why in past semesters going on dates was such a foreign thing and now that I’m trying to steer clear of boys, they’re actually being gentlemen.”
Recently, she went to dinner and a movie with someone who has caught her eye. “The rules for my semester without boys are definitely starting to bend,” she admits. While she was hesitant to go on the date, she decided there was no harm in dinner and a movie, so she went! She ended up having a really good time and discovered that her promise to herself to have a semester with no boys may be more challenging than she had anticipated. “I’m torn between liking him and telling myself to not like him because of my promise.”
In an attempt to keep her promise to herself, she did not ask this boy to an upcoming sorority event. “I ended up asking a girlfriend of mine.” She decided that asking a friend would be a less stressful situation, and she wouldn’t be tempted to get too attached to the boy. “So far, this semester has taken me on a strange path, but I’m really trying to keep my promise.” She admits that she is a little nervous as to how much her rules will bend as she continues through the semester. “Hopefully, a few dates doesn’t get me too off course,” she says, “I try to focus on the free meals and Whits that come with them.”