With the vast sea of single coeds at the bars and parties every weekend, you would think that it would be fairly easy for a driven and ambitious party-goer to find a bunk-mate for the night. Well, think again.

This may come as a shock to some males, but girls don’t like cheesy lines. That’s right ‘ they don’t like being asked if they’re angels from heaven or being told you can see yourself in their pants.

However, hook-ups do happen. Wake up early on a weekend morning and, if you’re lucky enough, you just might see a walk of shame. Everybody has seen one before. The quick glances, messy hair, disheveled clothing (either theirs or borrowed). It’s a classic.

Freshman Betsy P.* had some advice to offer the boys looking to get lucky Downtown.

‘No lines work on girls,’ she said. ‘Girls do whatever they want. The boys try and hit on the girls, but the girls are in charge of the situation. You don’t really hear the boys shooting down the girls, do you?’ Betsy asked rhetorically.

While Betsy has always been the initiator in pick-up situations, there are plenty of others who have been hit on and done the flirting.

Sophomore Anila Choudhury was partying at Boca Joe’s when she was approached by a fellow partier with a different type of pick-up line.

‘He asked if he could adopt me,’ she said.

Choudhury’s experience is a little more on the quirky side than your standard pick-up attempt.

Sam Sloty, a junior human development major, generally uses the direct approach.

‘I usually just ask ‘Do you want to make out?’ and then it goes from there. Surprisingly, it works quite often,’ he said.

While at a party, senior Maria Pantelis took an even more direct approach ‘ she got physical.

The lights went out at a party and Pantelis had to decide whether to turn to the left or to the right, and once she did, she grabbed the first butt she saw and proceeded to make out with the lucky person.

But such a direct approach isn’t for everybody. Sophomore Kirt Robinson tries to play up the shyness factor.

‘I just try and act nerdy and scared of girls, that’s my strategy. It hasn’t been working ‘ one of these days ‘ Robinson said.

Along with pick-up lines, witty T-shirts play a role in the quest to spend the night with somebody. According to some students, witty T-shirts are the start of conversations.

Sophomore Nicole Keane said she has had a few conversations begin because of the sayings on her T-shirts.

While wearing a T-shirt reading, ‘R is for Rad,’ Keane was approached and asked her name, assuming it began with an ‘R.’ The suitor was taken aback.

Shirts with sayings meant to catch eyes are often worn by both genders, but that doesn’t mean everybody likes that.

‘If a guy is wearing one, they come off arrogant. If a girl is wearing one, that’s just slutty,’ Betsy said.

Test your strategies next time you’re slightly inebriated, but remember, avoid the cheesy lines, unless you want people laughing at you and not with you.

*Name has been changed