The Rolla ratio. The odds are good, but the goods are odd. Women are like parking places; if they aren’t taken, they cost money, are far away, or illegal. We have all heard them, and get offended when they are said about us.  It’s normal; no girl wants to hear that she’s a “Rolla Princess”, and guys are not a fan of being called “odd goods”.  But, as with most good jokes, they are so true.

Yes, there are more guys than girls in Rolla...by quite a bit. You do have to deal with the drop in numbers of females. But really, when have you not had to deal with that.  Sure at your high school there were females. You never talked to them, but they were there.  The switch shouldn’t be that different.  It just means that the slutty cheerleader that you had a crush on, and knew she was going to see how sweet you were, is no longer there to piss you off when she ends up with yet another guy better looking than you. This could even be better for self-esteem.  Now you can blame being single on the fact that there are so few women in Rolla, and not the fact that your idea of getting to know a girl is to follow her around everywhere. Which leads me to the next thing.
If you are following a girl, please stop.  If you decide to go to a party because she will be there, you are a little bit creepy. If you change your class so that you are in the same section, you are going for stalker.  If you change your major so that you will be in more classes, you need more help this paper can give you.  Wanting to get to know a girl so you have things to talk about is okay, as long as you are asking her.  The question, “Did you see ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’?” is okay. Browsing her status changes to find out if she mentions it...is just wrong. Can you really blame the girls here for not liking you?  Heck, I don’t even like you anymore. You disgust me. When you get out of here, you will need to learn how to hold a conversation with the fairer sex.  She will not care that the beam above you is a zero-force member. She will find it creepy that you know her cat’s name before you meet the cat. Though the pickup line “I have a high earning potential” should work much better.
Now then ladies, it is time for you to learn some manners also. Yes, Rolla does more than it’s fair share of “off” guys (most people would say I am one of those). Yes, if you wear that low cut shirt, guys will pay attention to you. Yes, you knew this coming in. You came here for a PRO day, you saw what the campus looked like, you saw a representative sample of the population everywhere. There is even a good chance that you decided to come here so you could fit in when wearing a shirt with some WoW reference on it (WTB Epic Wang?). Maybe you would blend in perfectly at a piano bar in St. Louis drinking martinis.  Probably because you are a business major looking for your Mrs. Degree.  Whatever the reason you came here, you knew what you were getting into, and you like the attention. You didn’t wear the low cut shirt to impress your girlfriends, it was worn in the hopes that when you went to purchase a round of fuzzy navels, some poor sap would step in and take the bill. Continue to complain about this, but when it comes time for you to choose between being a nobody at Truman, or being the queen of the geeks here, it is obvious what you went with.