With the wide variety of guys you find on college campuses, this is the perfect time to explore and see what kind of guys you like. After a good two years and lots of interesting interactions with the male specimen, here is a list of the kind of guys I have dealt with.
1. Travis
He's the cute guy that smiled at you the first day of your biology lecture. Usually sporting a Target flannel or camouflage sweatshirt, unripped jeans, and a less aggressive version of cowboy boots, Travis is a true southern soul (meaning he's from Southern Illinois) who is probably majoring in agriculture or agricultural business. While he has a charming smile and a slight southern accent, he also has pictures of dead animals on his Instagram account that kind of turns you off.
2. Jackson
Jackson insists his name is spelled "Jaxon" but he just says that because he wants to build his brand for his future clothing line, which will coincidentally be called "Jaxon." He wears traffic-cone orange oversized sweatshirts, denim joggers, beanies, and huge puffy sneakers that the skateboarders in middle school wore. He listens exclusively to rap artists whose names start with "lil" and insists that he's different. He uses the black heart emoji, the weird drooling face emoji, and the wilted rose emoji religiously.
3. Kyle
Hockey guys are hot. Kyle just so happens to play hockey. He has a flow and wears oversized Hawks jerseys, Nikes, a beanie, and khakis basically every single day. He's cool, but he's high so often that you never know if he's sober or not. His room is full of flags that represent his favorite sports teams and only ever talks about that one time his tooth was punched out at his hockey tournament in St. Louis.
4. Brad/Chad/Matt/Joe/Nate/Noah
Brad/Chad/Matt/Joe/Nate/Noah is in Kappa Alpha Apple Pie Delta Airlines. When he isn't wearing a barn dance shirt, he's wearing a pastel Vineyard Vines shirt, khakis, boat shoes, and a backward hat he stole from some sorority girl he used to talk to. His talents? Shotgunning a beer in four seconds, breaking beer pong tables, "sending it," beer bonging in three seconds, doing keg stands, and being on all his frat brother's Snapchat stories when he "can't hang."
5. Ty
Ty is the mysterious guy that you always made eye contact with in your politics lecture. He never approached you, but one day you guys ended up walking out of class next to each other and somehow ended up talking. He always wears black skinny jeans, some kind of sweatshirt, converse, and a beanie. He doesn't really put effort into talking because he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, but you keep trying to keep the conversation going because he's cute and you want to solve the mystery that he is, but eventually it gets exhausting and you give up.
6. Jay
Jay is skinny, tall, and looks like he came straight out of a Tumblr post. He wears necklaces, skinny jeans, Doc Martens, and turtlenecks. His aesthetic is black and cigarette smoke. He's a "tortured artist" who writes you poems and tells you that you're the sunrise that "painted the black sky and gave his life color". He's so deep that eventually, you feel like you're drowning in metaphors and irony.
7. Hunter
Hunter reads. He is a poet. A yogi. A vegan. Hunter is everything you want in a boy. He looks like he was plucked off of a surfboard on Venice Beach or an Abercrombie bag. His long, curly blonde hair and ocean blue eyes drew you in. How did you get him to like you? Who knows. When you're with him though, you want to be a better person, wake up at the ass crack of dawn to do yoga in the morning dew, and write poetry while sipping on kombucha. He's the one you'll dream about for years after you stop talking. He's the one whose eyes you'll miss drowning in.
College is a cesspool of different kinds of guys that are bound to lead to a variety of different experiences. While most may be forgettable or will make you want to forget they ever existed, college out of all times is the best to see whether you like Jays, Traviss, or Hunters.