I just got back from having dinner at my father’s girlfriend’s house, with my father, his girlfriend (for lack of a term that sounds better), her two sons, a friend of the sons, and two of their neighbors. Discussions centered around the one son and his friend’s experiences in the Naval ROTC at their respective schools as well as the Naval experiences of the neighbor. And, as with any Jewish dinner conversation (to clarify, neither the dinner nor the conversation was particularly Jewish — but the people were most definitely), it led towards the discussion of marriage.
It is the college-aged son’s opinion that all the Jewish girls at his school are there just to look for husbands… and potentially rich husbands at that. There were some disagreements on this topic, but everyone seemed to agree that once you’re out of college, it gets exponentially more difficult to meet people with whom you have common interests. Oh, and one of the neighbors chimed in with: “Well, if you’re going to marry, you might as well marry well,” in reference to the girls’ search for potentially rich husbands.
I think I’m too much of a mieskeit (or just too poor) to ever marry.
Difficuly to meet people? Nonsense.
All you need is a weblog, in my experience.
Well, it is more difficult, because you have to adjust your methods of meeting people. But once you do, it doesn’t have to be difficult.
No, it definitely harder to meet people once you’re out of college. I’ve tried a bunch of ways, and still hang out primarily with people I met at school.
Definitely agree with Darren, you just have to get a bit more creative with ways to meet people. We no longer have access to hundreds of people our age experiencing close to the same thing we are like we did in school.
It’s also a fact that people are waiting longer and longer to get married. That means people must be finding ways to meet each other outside of school. So there is hope for you yet!