On Girls Who Learn Foreign Languages.

Since transferring from a small state school to a substantially larger state school, I have had a long-standing suspicion of mine confirmed. My new school is big enough to necessitate having an entire building dedicated to housing all of the school’s foreign languages departments, and within this building there is a disturbingly disproprtional hot-chick-to-non-hot-chick ratio. Well, maybe “disturbing” isn’t the right adjective, because this is a great fringe benefit for those who, like me, are studying the liberal arts at college. You won’t find this much attractiveness in one place in the engineering or computer science buildings, that much is certain.

But there is something about this natural phenomenon that is slightly disconcerting, and that is that the French classes do not attract the attractive among us. What the hell is up with that? Haven’t us Americans always been taught to believe the positive stereotype that French chicks are all amazingly hot? French is, after all, the so-called “language of love,” and love is obviously equivalent with shallow skin-deep attraction.

Of course, it’s not always sunshine and green grass; sometimes girls manage to shatter the illusion of their own attractiveness. Case in point: the girl who was standing out in the hallway repeatedly saying “¿Cómo estás?” and “Chimichangassss!” as if they were punchlines. It was cute the first time…but by the literal ninth time you repeated yourself, you were beating a dead horse and digging yourself a hole.

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Date: March 24, 2010
File under: girls liberal arts slightly sexist college