Hey guys, it's me Veralyn.
So, for a lot of reasons, lack of funds being at the top of the list, I never went away
to school.
I lived at home at took the train to Hunter College, semester after semester, and my campus
was New York City.
Well I want us to know why, life, okay, dating life, was like in the other extreme.
So I went to Lawrence, Kansas, one of the top ten college towns in the country.
It's easy to go out and meet people in a college town because you know there's a lot of bars,
there's a lot of music venues.
There's just so many people here I mean like 40,000 college students here in the school
year.
So um, so you're always going to find people who are into the same stuff you are.
How do you think dating here would be different than dating in New York?
Oh gee, I think dating in New York would be even more difficult because everyone's so
like, you don't pay attention to people in the street you just ignore everyone.
And I know at NYU everyone's like notoriously unfriendly and like notoriously doesn't talk
to each other in class.
You're always with your partner, and so it's like close-knit environment and so when you
go out with your friends and stuff, you know it gives you more time together instead instead
of when you're off-campus in a sense.
Is togetherness a good thing?
Sometimes.
A friend who, I think this is kind of just a little bit of a Midwest kinda thing, his
father met his wife because he saw her and he thought she was really cute, so he pulled
in front of her and put on the brakes, and then stopped her car and asked her out on
a date.
Wow!
*Laughs* That would not go down in New York.
One thing I kept hearing about Lawrence, even before I got there, was it's the liberal hub
of a mostly conservative Kansas state.
So of course I had to find out their views on birth control.
I believe in birth control all the way I've got the Implanon three years.
I just had a daughter so I'm completely with birth control.
Uh, birth control, I don't know, I have a girlfriend and she's not on birth control,
um I don't really know anything about it really.
Um, I think if a girl decides to get on birth control that's her choice.
Um, pro-life I would never want to have to go have to have an abortion.
But I do want to prevent that situation as much as I can you know, being, condoms, birth
control, anything that I can you know?
Definitely.
So you have a girlfriend?
I do have a girlfriend.
Is she on birth control?
She is on birth control.
Do you know what type?
She has the um, it's not a pill it's the one that's inside, it's not the ring it's the-
IUD?
She said it looks like a T. Are you on birth control?
I'm not.
Okay.
For health reasons, or just?
I can't do it.
Oh why?
Um, I don't know something about my hormones.
Oh, okay.
How do you kind of manage that when it comes to your dating life?
Um, well you know, I'm trying to save myself for marriage.
Okay, so that's guaranteed birth control which is an option!
And for those not waiting, KU has a health clinic right on campus.
I see that you have, the birth control today.
I do.
I have student insurance so it's free.
*Gasp* Yeah.
*Laughs* Cause I'm using one of the cheaper ones.
The student insurance pays 15 bucks and mine costs 15 dollars.
How much about a month do you spend?
Like 60 dollars.
60 dollars a month?
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, it's expensive.
It's crazy how birth control pills can be free for one woman, and 60 dollars a month
for another.
That's why it's so important to know all of your birth control options.
So, true to it's college town label, it's clear to me that dating in Lawrence, definitely
revolves around KU.
And apparently, some people fully commit to that reality.
A lot of people will go to KU, get a degree at KU, get a job at KU, and then find their
love at KU, then get married.
Some people married on KU campus.
Cool *laughs.* It's a lifestyle.
Not exactly for me, but that lifestyle doesn't sound so bad.