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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I tell my students that they’ll never again be surrounded by such a large pool of eligible dating prospects as they are in college. What’s more: Given the difficulties so many young adults face when it comes to dating today, I add, they should be extra attentive to seizing the manifest opportunities college presents to find a potential mate." This is such a good point.[/quote]

Except that the current generation is incredibly networked through their friends. Assuming they’re reasonably social and willing to stay connected after college, they have the ability to plug into various social circles wherever they take a job.

For example, my DC and all their friends have already connected with a bunch of kids at the colleges they’ll be attending next year - friends of friends from camp or activities or club sports, kids who are family friends (sons/daughters of their parents’ college or grad school friends), kids who moved away in middle school but stayed connected etc.

For even moderately social kids, those connections and social circles only multiply over time. Land a dream job in Chicago after college graduation? Easy to plug in socially, whether it’s person-by-person or through young alumni events etc.

And then there’s work, of course. How many people here met their spouse that way? I can think of six DC couples I know, right off the top of my head. Either co-workers or someone they met in the course of doing their job. [/quote]

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