Is the University of York really full of ugly people?

I go to York St John, not York uni, but I believe there are some decent looking people there. As i've seen on nights out, anyway.

I can't say I have much first hand-experience with the regular St John student (for some reason vodka rev was swamped with your kind some Tuesday but that's it), but among UoY men (and the UoY women who don't have low self esteem) it is considered fact that St John's women are prettier but generally a bit/very daft. I guess the daft part could be confirmed by looking at the average grades of students at both places, but I think I'd have a hard time proving causality between hotness and lower intellectual capacity.

I can't say I have much first hand-experience with the regular St John student (for some reason vodka rev was swamped with your kind some Tuesday but that's it), but among UoY men (and the UoY women who don't have low self esteem) it is considered fact that St John's women are prettier but generally a bit/very daft. I guess the daft part could be confirmed by looking at the average grades of students at both places, but I think I'd have a hard time proving causality between hotness and lower intellectual capacity.

I think there's a fair amount of pretty guys on campus and girls aren't that bad either.

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that being said, it doesn't really matter because i'm getting a great education and that is something that should actually matter when considering a university.

...and i'm married so i'm not looking. and if i was looking it seems that the students at york do nothing but drink excessively in their spare time. seriously, when i walk around campus or before classes when students are talking amongst themselves all i ever hear is talk of drinking games, going out on an average tuesday night and getting home at 4am (i.e. its not just the weekends, its every night), 15 pints in an hour, drinking to excess and vomiting all evening, drinking and going home with random guys....seriously, i don't know how anyone gets any studying done because all they do is drink.

this is going to sounds horrible and shallow, but honestly, i was suprised by the ugliness when i first started at york. and it goes beyond the horrible fashion sense of the student body in general (particularly the females...they are like topshop clones in leggings, slouchy boots, and too much makeup...even the girls who could be pretty ruin it by looking like raggamuffins who get dressed and do their hair with a blindfold on).

but for the most part i would say that the campus is full of unattractive people. you see a lot of girls with butter face. its unfortunate because you see a girl who looks pretty from a distance or from behind, and then you see herface and you just shudder a bit. i have seen maybe 2-3 good looking guys in my several month there, and i think they have been faculty. i am in a small department of around 100 students, there are maybe 3 in that bunch who i would say are somewhat attractive.

that being said, it doesn't really matter because i'm getting a great education and that is something that should actually matter when considering a university.

...and i'm married so i'm not looking. and if i was looking it seems that the students at york do nothing but drink excessively in their spare time. seriously, when i walk around campus or before classes when students are talking amongst themselves all i ever hear is talk of drinking games, going out on an average tuesday night and getting home at 4am (i.e. its not just the weekends, its every night), 15 pints in an hour, drinking to excess and vomiting all evening, drinking and going home with random guys....seriously, i don't know how anyone gets any studying done because all they do is drink.

but this has a plus side i suppose because you won't really notice the fact that the majority of males have spotty skin and greasy hair and the majority of women have terribly unfortunate jaw lines and you cannot tell their hair from a birds nest.

*sigh* - time to break out the stereotypes again.

Fine, there's a fair amount of people that go out excessively, but that's not *everyone*, and I don't actually know of many people that can down 15 pints in a night, nevermind do it, and only once has one of my friends been vomiting from alcohol. We still do study (hell, most of my friends come from a CS/Physics/Maths/Biology/Chemistry etc background, so, you know, we actually have this thing called contact time).

Also, yeah, some of us (including me), do have problems with spots. WE CAN'T HELP IT. I'm sorry that my hormones seem to be bringing your York experience down, I really am. I guess in your view that must mean I have no personality and aren't worth talking to.

So then, talking of stereotypes, let's break out the big one. I'm a computer scientist, and I love metal music. I guess that's the final nail in the coffin, eh?

*sigh* - time to break out the stereotypes again.

Fine, there's a fair amount of people that go out excessively, but that's not *everyone*, and I don't actually know of many people that can down 15 pints in a night, nevermind do it, and only once has one of my friends been vomiting from alcohol. We still do study (hell, most of my friends come from a CS/Physics/Maths/Biology/Chemistry etc background, so, you know, we actually have this thing called contact time).

Also, yeah, some of us (including me), do have problems with spots. WE CAN'T HELP IT. I'm sorry that my hormones seem to be bringing your York experience down, I really am. I guess in your view that must mean I have no personality and aren't worth talking to.

So then, talking of stereotypes, let's break out the big one. I'm a computer scientist, and I love metal music. I guess that's the final nail in the coffin, eh?

just attractive straight men (perhaps add decent to that as well). My girlfriends and I have even joked about turning gay.