The Stand
For students, by students 

St Andrews has been full of new faces lately. And yet, for returning students, the dating scene doesn’t seem to have been as rejuvenated by the town’s new blood as some may have hoped. Why is this? Credit: Pinterest Allow me to begin to answer my own question with a personal anecdote. I was recently in Spoons with some friends when, to our great amusement, a handsome young man struck up a conversation with one of them at the bar. They seemed to be hitting it off – until he r

When Gemma Collins said, "It’s hell in there. It’s horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive," you’d think she was talking about the dating scene in St Andrews. Hell, horror, and a pained existence encapsulate what many singletons experience here – a trilogy of suffering born not just from abstinence, but from actually going on dates. The issues are obvious. Sixty percent of students are female, so there are simply more women than men. As one student noted,