[KappaKittyCat]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
It's always been my belief that those "hometown honey" situations tend to negatively cloud the first semester of college, especially for girls. When I was a counselor with the first-years, 75% of the first semester drama was about boyfriends at home (the boys tended to break up with their girls during the summer). It really stilted their social lives and interactions during those crucial first weeks when groups and interests started to gel, and when those couples break up (which they usually do by Thanksgiving), the person is usually scurrying to find a group, when most of the big social interactions were made in September.

We have Deferred Rush, and some of the PNMs have told us that they didn't consider Rushing until they broke up with their HS sweetheart and realized that they didn't have many friends at school, or even if they did remain dating, the girl usually realizes that another group of friends would be a good thing to have. This all sounds terribly pessimistic, but I know that boy problems can really cloud one's happiness at college. When that resolves itself, I suspect (from personal experience) that things will get better.

My hometown honey dumped me at the end of my freshman year. I joined Kappa the following fall.