The Stand
For students, by students 

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,

Which of these is the most performative? (a) Reading a book in public, especially while walking down the street. Bonus point if it’s a title that people will recognise for its literariness, like Giovanni’s Room . (b) Wearing paint-stained overalls with a beer bottle sticking out of your pocket. (c) Citing some great academic in class who wasn’t even included in the secondary reading —you skimmed an abstract three minutes before the tutorial—to show off to everyone how