Stephanie Karina

Before I have time to make up my mind, you head my way, elbowing a path towards me. Someone you knocked into glares at you; you don’t apologize.

5. Someone offers you a red solo cup filled with an unknown orange liquid, which you decline. Instead, you pour yourself a chaste cup full of tonic water. Since when did you become such a grandma?

5. Back when you were young and naïve (that is, seven months ago), you thought that dating someone would make you feel less lonely. Now, you’ve realized that this particular relationship just makes you feel lonelier.

Let’s make sure that the people on the screen better reflect those off the screen. Especially the kids watching at home.

In the hierarchy of the college dating game, there is one type of player who is frequently overlooked: the sensitive bro.

1. When meeting her friends for the first time, you get the vague feeling that they already know you.

Here are some tunes — new or just underrated — that will hopefully make your romantic alone time livelier.

On the other hand, I intentionally made myself appear more vapid than I was. I was 15, and I wanted to fit in like everyone else.

There are smooth guys and there are guys who fall on the less socially apt end of the spectrum. Personally, I think that those who belong in the latter category are underrated.

You prefer intimate social gatherings to large parties — which, frankly, often stress you out. There are so many people!

Maybe you’ve already browsed most of Netflix and need some new picks.

“You’re going to be single forever if you don’t lower your standards,” my friend cautioned me one afternoon this summer.