In one of my programs in college during my freshman year they made all of the students break up into a smaller writer group where we were supposed to write journal entries of a sort about ourselves and our life experiences and then we had to share the entries with each other and write comments. This writer group was meant to help us get to know each other as people better because most of what we did in the program was sit and listen to professors give lectures, or watch movies on the topic or talk about books we read in smaller seminar groups. So except for seeing people and talking in seminar sometimes you didn’t really get to know many of your fellow students.
My closest friend at college was in the writer group with me. She lived next to me in the college housing which were called ‘mods’. So we had gotten to know each other much better than many of the other students had gotten to know each other. We studied together at night sometimes and went out grocery shopping and went to shows together on the weekends.
We both noticed after attending the smaller writers group for a while, that the guys in the group seemed to mostly use the assignment as an opportunity to hit on women they thought were cute like my friend and I. We compared journals one day and we found out that various guys were using the exercise to tell us both that they thought we were attractive and they wanted to get to know us better. We laughed about this because we thought it was a pretty opportunistic way to use the class exercise. But I guess young people can feel isolated in college and they have raging hormones, and I suppose the act of asking someone out in writing that will be viewed later is probably easier than walking up to them and asking them in person.
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