If you're an engineering student, blow through the classes as quickly as you can. Accept the suck. Try to minimize the amount of time there.
Do NOT work on campus as a bartender, at a cafe, or other job with food or drink. You do not want to clean up after sick students. Worst job ever.
Do look for student intern positions for engineering students. These pay well for little responsibility and are a nice break from classes. They also really look good on your resume when you graduate.
Find where the Education classes are for teachers at your University. These are normally 95% female and desperate for male company. Hang out on their side of the University campus. Act like someone new there. Ask for directions to places on campus, where to buy the cheapest books, what are the best cheap cafes to hang out at. Use the "An old classmate from my last school is visiting and I have no idea where to go." story.
Get involved in anything that mixes the sexes: A choir, a drama group, a waltz club. The volunteer emergency workers for sports events have a large amount of female nursing students and the training class is usually only one weekend. Plus you get into home sports events for free.
Concentrate on getting into small parties with other students in apartments and dorm rooms. Hanging out in campus bars is a waste of your time. Those guys will be washing your car after you graduate.
And you're in Athens! Learn where the youth hostels are and become the friendly local that hangs out with all those exotic visiting student tourists. Pick up a copies of "Lonely Planet" and "Let's Go" and read the student tourism sites about your city. Hang out in those places, and you'll find cute tourists quickly.
Watch for people reading maps. 90% of the time they will have it pointed the wrong way and have no idea where they are. Take the time to point where they are on the map and make turning motions until they orient it the right way. Help them get where they want to go, usually by pointing. Start with a couple older families with children first and just smile and be helpful. Most of the other tourists will then see you as the expert and ask you for help. Interesting girls ...where they want to go everyone always gets lost, the subway's too hard for outsiders, etc. etc. Make an excuse while you have to guide them there yourself in person. Avoid museums, restaurants and shopping, but fountains and other things tourists love to photograph themselves in front for free, try to reserve these for time with you. And always tell them some sights are best seen at night. Tourists really appreciate a local helping them find their way through a strange dark city at night.
Germans think everyone in the world is a pickpocket, so be ready for weird responses from them. Everyone else is pretty cool. Even the Japanese as long as they're not in groups.
As for the "headless horseman" pictures, that gets old fast past age 20. This guide shows men get far better response rates by taking a picture of themselves not smiling and looking off to the side of the camera:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.html/the-4-...-pictures/
Do NOT work on campus as a bartender, at a cafe, or other job with food or drink. You do not want to clean up after sick students. Worst job ever.
Do look for student intern positions for engineering students. These pay well for little responsibility and are a nice break from classes. They also really look good on your resume when you graduate.
Find where the Education classes are for teachers at your University. These are normally 95% female and desperate for male company. Hang out on their side of the University campus. Act like someone new there. Ask for directions to places on campus, where to buy the cheapest books, what are the best cheap cafes to hang out at. Use the "An old classmate from my last school is visiting and I have no idea where to go." story.
Get involved in anything that mixes the sexes: A choir, a drama group, a waltz club. The volunteer emergency workers for sports events have a large amount of female nursing students and the training class is usually only one weekend. Plus you get into home sports events for free.
Concentrate on getting into small parties with other students in apartments and dorm rooms. Hanging out in campus bars is a waste of your time. Those guys will be washing your car after you graduate.
And you're in Athens! Learn where the youth hostels are and become the friendly local that hangs out with all those exotic visiting student tourists. Pick up a copies of "Lonely Planet" and "Let's Go" and read the student tourism sites about your city. Hang out in those places, and you'll find cute tourists quickly.
Watch for people reading maps. 90% of the time they will have it pointed the wrong way and have no idea where they are. Take the time to point where they are on the map and make turning motions until they orient it the right way. Help them get where they want to go, usually by pointing. Start with a couple older families with children first and just smile and be helpful. Most of the other tourists will then see you as the expert and ask you for help. Interesting girls ...where they want to go everyone always gets lost, the subway's too hard for outsiders, etc. etc. Make an excuse while you have to guide them there yourself in person. Avoid museums, restaurants and shopping, but fountains and other things tourists love to photograph themselves in front for free, try to reserve these for time with you. And always tell them some sights are best seen at night. Tourists really appreciate a local helping them find their way through a strange dark city at night.
Germans think everyone in the world is a pickpocket, so be ready for weird responses from them. Everyone else is pretty cool. Even the Japanese as long as they're not in groups.
As for the "headless horseman" pictures, that gets old fast past age 20. This guide shows men get far better response rates by taking a picture of themselves not smiling and looking off to the side of the camera:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.html/the-4-...-pictures/
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World