A woman's opinion requested

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Registered: 03-16-2006
A woman's opinion requested
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Thu, 03-16-2006 - 7:11pm

I'm a guy in his mid 20's and have been lurking here for the past few days to get idea of what women think about OLD (where better to get a woman's opinion than here...lol). I just posted my profile a week ago (with pictures)on Match and sent out 6 emails (4 of these women I guess could be considered average looking by men's standards). I haven't heard anything back from anybody. I've used everybody's opinion to carefully word my profile, yet keeping it personal. So my questions are how many emails do you get lets say in a week? How many of those do you just outright dismiss? How many do you respond to? And how long do you normally take to respond? After reading this board, I got a good vibe about the quality and intellect of women here, so I value your responses. I'll post more questions later.

Thanx
TR

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Registered: 03-16-2006
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 11:29pm

Hi Sue

My profile was significantly longer a few days ago, but I decided after sending out 15 emails and not getting one response, I thought maybe shortening up a little bit might help (can't understand why "mystery" is so important, seems to bite women in the ass so much, at least that's happened with my female friends that I talk to). So here it is

I'm simple and open-minded that's easily amused (I've learned to make a lot of boring science classes entertaining). Currently, I'm attending graduate school at Montclair but in the process of weening myself off college. I love school and would get a bunch of degrees if I could, but I know it's time to move on (the bank called me the other day and told me they're out of money). I'm so close to attaining my dream of inspiring and teaching science to high school students. It's wonderful to see the reaction of a student after finally getting a concept that they didn't understand before, it's so satisfying, gives meaning to my life, and always puts me in a great mood

In my spare time, I love sports, especially hockey. I like to rollerblade or ice skate, cook, read, and find more spare time. I'm trying to make it a point to get out more often, a lot of people are good in small doses.

I'm just looking to meet new people to chill with and if a relationship comes out of it, all the better.

I tried to put in something different from what everybody else posted, like where my screenname "edgehead" came from. It's a U2 reference to my hero, The Edge, but I guess people don't like them, so I cut it out (I get ratted on all the time for being "old" but I guess people don't know good music if it hit them over the head, I have to laugh at people who seem to like death metal and rap...music???? more like noise). Then I cut an anecdote about great my father and I get along.

I know that a lot of women my age are really shallow and know there are better looking guys on Match, however their profiles are almost nonexistent. I consider myself a 6.5/7 out of 10 but IRL I'm better looking, 7.5/8 out of 10, I guess you can say me and the camera don't agree most the time. After reading the other posts on this thread, I did come to the conclusion that a lot of people don't have an account, which is fine, shows me they're cheap. I keep in mind that God has a great sense of humor. Now I'm babbling so I'll stop.

Thanx so much
TR

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