Not bad looking but could use some SS+GOMAD. I think young looking helps with the hot good girl freshmen which I feel too old to get anymore

Is that John Lennon?

Get a new jacket. A full body shot would probably help, but you are looking kinda young and you are probably dressed in a timid way (I hope you get what I am trying to say).

To each his own, but I would probably take an inch+ off the top.

Other than that, yeah...being what, 5'9? should not be any issue for you.

I'm 6'3 but have a potato-head-hit-by-a-frying-pan- face

Whats wrong with the jacket? I like timid (so much better then looking like lego house).

Pic is from the fall. It's a cheap light jacket and I'm now clean cut. I can take a new pic today - I'm dressed well. I have a pretty good idea of how to dress tho.

And ya, everyone tells me I look young

Don't get the timid comment

From the pic, I get the sense that you are not dressed in a way that would make you stick out from a group of people.

This doesnt mean you need to be wearing 16 different colors, but wearing a jacket like that doesnt really portray confidence.

I think it depends on the environment and varies from girl to girl. For me - sticks out from the crowd also means that the closest I will get to a intelligent conversation is the one, that discusses the new sound system that he bought for his car, just to piss up other drivers under the traffic lights. Timid on the other hand refers to a guy who can have intelligent conversations. This all is just one big generalization, but if you get caught between two girls - I say - go with the one that dresses more timid. But like I said all girls are not the same and there are many who have never seen a boy who takes longer then you to get ready and who doesnt have any intelligence to go with the looks. Now another factor - what kind of girls to you want to attrac (in this case it would be timid goes with timid and "spotlight" goes with "spotlight" IMO - I have seen cute exceptions though). As for confidence - hold your back straight, head high and dont drag your legs (they are must, but Im sometimes amazed how many guys have at least one point wrong). Plus being social really helps you stick out.
Also for the title (and I think one user gave nice view on that) - you should not be afraid of the "no" , I mean you only need one "yes" and the more you ask the more your odds increase towards the yes (her sentence not mine - I just know that some guys have insecurities about that).

I think this is so far off from the truth.
I think the exact opposite is true. I know nothing about car sound systems, but the people I know who are hardcore into that stuff (by that I mean, would actually have a conversation about it in a bar with a strange girl) look like they share the same wardrobe - Jersey Shore style.

That was hard to understand but I think at some point you categorize taking a lot of time getting ready as bad for a guy. It isn't.

Also girls that are timid are generally a waste of time.

You can say it doesn't look good but I don't see how confidence comes into the picture. I don't go out to parties dressed like that.

Didnt mean to offend you. You posted a pic and I noticed it.
I think if you dress well - as you say you do - you can stick out in a group.

So I just need to ask this girl out until she say yes. Why didn't this occur to me before?

I wouldn't listen to Spurious if I were you. He lives in Europe and doesn't really understand American style, especially on university campuses. I don't think that jacket is bad at all. You could probably do better, but I guarantee there are 500 other things you could do (mostly attitude) that would help you get laid more than changing your jacket.

It's not. I accept my height and it's really not an issue to me.

I could be wrong but AKSpartan is also in Europe.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the jacket but there is also particularly great about it either. Seems just pretty average for a student so while not bad he could certainly choose to dress better than his peers which would be a big advantage.

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you're certainly a good looking kid. But, because you're 5'9 , you're still going to have to learn to initiate and flirt with girls because even though you're good looking, no one's going to really notice you like that without you giving them a reason.

Ya you are def good looking, but at 5'9 you either need to get super ripped/jacked, loaded, or learn some game tho....

Pretty sure getting ripped/jacked/loaded/named Royce ain't going to help. Game, yes.

I think you underestimate how materialistic most girls are.

this is right

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Being in good shape will certainly help him but he doesn't want to bulk up. Being bulkly when you are short just draws more attention to the fact that you are short. It also makes dressing well really hard.

Yeah, I mean the problem with this is is that alot of my friends have moved since graduation. I went to grad school and then moved back here just now so the problem is I don't have a ton of friends here still and the ones that are do not want to go anywhere decent. So therefore, I would be going to these places by myself lol. It just sucks because for the last year I was going to pretty cool venues, meeting girls, etc. and now I come back here and there is nothing.