It’d be easy enough to say that upperclassmen in college like freshmen girls because they don’t know any better because, well, it’s true. No, I’m not saying that every guy is a horny bastard trying to take advantage of girls that don’t know better, but there are a lot of reasons it can be advantageous for a guy to talk to the girls who just walked onto a college campus for the first time.
One of the main reasons is that these freshmen girls (and guys) are a good chance to show off. “Oh so you don’t know where the Pentacrest is? Let me show you…” Everybody likes to show off, even when it’s just telling a lost girl that she is already standing in front of the Adler Journalism Building.
Freshmen are still impressed by college guys, the only difference between them and a high school senior is a diploma. They still can’t get over that they’re in college, so the buzzwords of “fraternity,” “keg,” and “party” work like using hydropump against a Charizard: they’re supereffective.
What else is great about freshmen is that they’re easy to talk to. After a month or so of college, asking the usual freshmen questions (hometown/major/why Iowa) end up getting old, but until then they are golden. They are the easiest thing for a guy to ask a freshman girl. More likely than not they’re going to be excited to tell the guy the answers that he may or may not care about and it will instantly give at least five minutes of conversation (if you count his answer). Both of them talking about three different things will give at least six chances for the two of them to connect on a subject, and, the best part, whether or not the guy cares or listens to the freshman girl’s answer, she will think he is considerate for asking.
The last reason might be the one misinterpreted the most as a bad thing, but getting to know any freshman is a chance for someone to reinvent themselves. This doesn’t mean that the guy who has a reputation for taking advantage of drunk girls (being a rapist) gets to pretend he’s not for a change. … okay it does mean that, but it also means that the guy who started out his freshman year as a quiet and reserved bookworm gets to talk to a girl who doesn’t have that picture of him in her head.
Freshmen girls act like a clean slate in the mirror, a guy gets to be whoever he want to be, and no matter who that is it’s the guy who knows more about Iowa City than them. It’s the guy that can show a girl around because he’s done it all before, and because, well, freshmen girls don’t know any better.