Jesuit high schools create an addiction
By Maryann Dakkak
What's with Jesuit guys? I've always prided myself for not having a "type". I can be friends with anyone, anywhere, anytime, etc. Blond, brown, black, blue, green - none of it matters to me. Everyone is a person and in my mind intrinsically has great value.
Right? Well, yeah. Then over the weekend, I went out to lunch. It just so happened to be with two guys who went to a Jesuit high school (one my brother, a freshman now, and the other an ex-boyfriend who now goes to UC Davis). They were fooling around with each others chairs, plates and utensils, acting stupid as most Jesuit high school alum and attendees will. I started making fun of them, using my "Jesuit guys are freaks" argument, when they both pointed out that all the guys I've ever dated had gone to a Jesuit high school.
I got defensive and tried to come up with a reason they were wrong, but to no avail. They were right, I'm a Jesuit boy groupie.
I've only dated, seriously, about four guys, and each of them had graduated from a Jesuit high school. And notably, not the same ones. Every guy I've even been seriously interested or even slightly attracted to has been from the Jesuit high school breed. No matter what I do, every guy who sparks an interest comes Jesuit-made.
Maybe it doesn't help that I go to a Jesuit university and that I went to a Catholic all-girl high school. But all I'm asking for is to once, just once, be interested in a guy out of the Jesuit mold.
Maybe I'm a private school snob. I never thought so, but I've got to face the harsh facts - I get uneasy when I hear "public high school." Public schools make me want to run and hide. I automatically almost feel bad for people who had to suffer through the thousands of crazy kids in the public system. That's because the public school kids I lived next to were always coming home drunk and high and whatever else I was taught was sinful.
What's even funnier is that I'm fine with girls who went to public schools. I live with one, and she's one of my closest friends. And truthfully, public high school kids make fun of us too!
The best guys I've ever met, and the worst guys I've ever met have all been from Jesuit high schools. And though I've sworn them off at least five times a year, it's an addiction that in my mind is better than most others.