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,

We are all chasing something, whether that be academic success, a perfect resume, athletic excellence, romantic attention. And what do each of these ambitions have in common? They grant a certain sense of validation that makes us feel more important. After all, doesn’t everybody want to be important? While these noble(ish) pursuits have been connected to human experience as long as historians have documented civilization, I can’t help but highlight one form of attempted fulf