Lets you smile throughout, and gives you some insights into contemporary life on campus without resorting to cliches.
It says something about society as a whole, in that men have never really valued drive and success as selection criteria and we’re all kind of OK with that.
Mothers instruct their daughters to find a “nice, successful boy,” but fathers high-five their sons when they bring home the prom queen.
To keep his scholarship, he must study hard and do well.
Paul, from rural upstate, comes to New York City for college.
For Paul, though, it's more than friendly feelings.
Can they work things out for them to become a truly lucky couple?
No, the last part, the thing about dating “losers.” It’s a testament to just how useless TED talks are, because people have been telling women that their boyfriends are losers forever.
Men are expected to have a sense of direction and ambition more or less from birth, so much so that most women will list “ambition” right under “sense of humor” on a list of vague qualities they seek out in a romantic partner.
It’s also (sadly) kind of presumed that men will settle down as they age and choose higher quality women, as though it’s a concept we as men had the good sense to invent and that the womenfolk would never figure out were it not for our guidance.
Additionally, despite tolerating men calling women all sorts of awful things for centuries, society, curiously enough, won’t stand for men referring to women as “losers” or “useless.” I’ve just never heard it.