10 Tips to Help Your Life

Okay Rexburg daters, it's almost the weekend. What's your social life looking like? If it includes eating ice cream in your sweatpants and watching P.S. I Love You for the umpteenth time with your roommates, keep reading. If it includes a Halo party with your buddies, keep reading.  Even if it includes a casual lunch date with that super attractive guy from BIO 180, keep reading.

Now, we can all be a little stupid when we play the dating game. Perhaps you've found yourself in this situation. The guy (or girl) you've had your eye on for the last three weeks finally talks to you. Instead of saying something winning and charming in response, word vomit comes out instead. This is because your thoughts are stuck in your amgydale. It's a real thing. It's one of the parts of your brain that serves as a storehouse of sorts for your emotions. A thought enters through your brain stem and in order to get through to the frontal lobe where logical thinking can take place, it must pass through the amygdale. If you are experiencing high emotions, you are likely to get stuck in your amygdale, incapacitating you to any logical and witty thoughts or remarks.

Maybe, if this has been you, you've felt like a dummy. Fear not, Rexburg daters. According to Dating for Dummies, here are 10 tips for a good first date.

1. Pick an activity you enjoy. 
2. Pick an activity you can afford. 
3. Pick something that doesn't require new clothes. 
4. Go where you can talk without getting thrown out. 
5. Go to a place that's easy to get to. 
6. Do something that isn't competitive. 
7. Pick an activity that doesn't involve a lot of alcohol. (But in Rexburg, Idaho don't do anything that would make you look like an idiot or make rash decisions.)
8. Leave time to get to know each other.
9. Do something that doesn't involve others. (Friends, roommates, ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, parents, teachers, co-workers)
10. Find an activity that doesn't last more than a couple of hours.

Good luck, Rexburg daters. Knock em' dead.