Taking advice from the media: How to find the love of your life 3

There's much more advice to be taken from the media on your love life, but part 3 will conclude this week's online seminar in how to find the love of your life. (parts 1 and 2)

1. Warm up to the person you married out of boredom and then may or may not have cheated on. (The Painted Veil)

2. Make your friends confront your crush because your only direct(ish) interactions with him/her are through bizarre haunted house rides. (Amelie)

3. Start a long-standing banter. (Much Ado About Nothing)

4. Fall in love with the painting of a (presumed) dead person. (Laura)

5. Promise to meet up with a brief fling at a well-known landmark. (An Affair to Remember)

6. Go for the fun brother. (While You Were Sleeping)

7. Give sound but unwanted advice. (Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel)

8. Become the cliche that falls for their bosses. (Two Weeks Notice)

9. Give your roommate/co-worker a chance. (Someone Like You)

10. Remember: outsiders have more fun. (Gone With the Wind)

And by special request:

11. Hook up with a friend of a friend: it's easier than a friend. (When Harry Met Sally)

Taking advice from the media: How to find the love of your life 2

Here's part 2 of how to find the love of your life. (part 1)

1. Pursue your childhood clergyman. (The Thorn Birds)

2. Ditch your travel companions for a good looking stranger. (Two for the Road)

3. Be extra sassy to a celebrity. (Singin' in the Rain)

4. Seduce your sibling's almost-girl/boyfriend away from them for business purposes. (Sabrina)

5. Reignite a childhood romance (The Village)

6. Call out your crush on their mixed-signals bullshit. (10 Things I Hate About You)

7. Take your sibling's rejected cast-off. (Little Women)

8. Develop a relationship with the house ghost. (Just Like Heaven)

9. Decide the nice guy/girl that likes you just the way you are is worth spending time with. (Bridget Jones's Diary)

10. Find the smart side of someone frivolous. (Legally Blonde)

Taking advice from the media: How to find the love of your life

So I've managed to make some friends with some of the neato techniques I picked up from film and television (parts 1 and 2), but now I feel compelled by the media to find the love of my life. After all, the only way I'm going to be content in life is if I find a man to share it with, amirite? So anyway, here's part 1 of 3 of how to find the love of your life based on movies in my roommates' and my own DVD collections.

1. Adopt a helpful--although perhaps conniving--stranger as your travel companion. (It Happened One Night)

2. Be flirtatiously caustic. (Love Story)

3. Spend time with your neurotic neighbor. (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

4. Force your way into the life of exactly the wrong person. (The Way We Were)

5. Private dancing lessons. (Dirty Dancing)

6. Become a casebook example of Stockholm Syndrome. (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

7. Fall for the savior of mankind. (Titan A.E.)

8. Give your number to a closeted genius. (Good Will Hunting)

9. Recruit a hot, young thing for your money-making scheme. (Anastasia)

10. Fall for the subject of your big news article. (Roman Holiday)

Taking advice from the media: How to make friends 2

By popular demand, even more helpful advice:

1. Do a fun cultural tradition with people assigned to welcome you to a new area. (Three Coins in the Fountain)

2. Leave a cryptic note on the windshield of someone who catches your eye. (Unbreakable)

3. Come over uninvited during inconvenient hours. (Northern Exposure)

4. Adopt a new acquaintance and form them into your dream friend. (Emma)

5. Get someone out of an awkward situation. (Veronica Mars)

6. Ring a random person's apartment to get into your building--be sure to personally thank them! (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

7. Walk around in the nude. (A Knight's Tale)

8. Ask a blunt and unexpected question. (Love, Actually)

9. Use complicated stratagems to meet up. (Amelie)

10. Barter a mutually beneficial agreement. (Howl's Moving Castle)

Taking advice from the media: How to make friends

I'm kind of a shy person, so I have to make myself make friends which is kind of an awkward process. But since tomorrow is the start of a new school year and my first year in my program, I decided to pick up some tips from movies and television. Here 9 ways I found to make friends:

1. Join a group activity like a sport. (Bend it Like Beckham)

2. Help out at a party. (Dirty Dancing)

3. Involve a stranger in an elaborate plan to impress a woman or a man. (How I Met Your Mother)

4. Find another socially awkward person to have fun with away from a large group of people. (Little Women)

5. Ask a person for help with something they do especially well, like sneaking contraband items into prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)

6. Work with someone on a mutually noble cause. (Casablanca)

7. Make fun of a classmate during lecture. (Kal Ho Naa Ho)

8. Force conversation on a seatmate while riding public transportation. (Sliding Doors)

9. Shock a new acquaintance into doing something outlandish and fun such as a three-legged race. (Anne of Green Gables)