It seems to me that this entire incident is being blown out of proportion. Perhaps the OP has an unusual or very pretty name. If this young man is a freshman he may be very unsure of himself. We don’t know if he has ever gone to a co-ed school before or if he knows what he should/shouldn’t say to someone of the opposite gender. Perhaps he just meant it as a compliment, plain and simple. The OP could just have thanked him, changed the topic and then said good-bye. We don’t know a lot of things here – is this a Jewish university? If it is, it is very inappropriate of the school to pair up people of the opposite sex for college orientation. If the school is not a Jewish one, the OP could have told the co-ordinators of this program that she wished to be paired with another girl. Once she accepted this “assignment”, she should have been prepared for effusive thanks from her assigned freshman. It doesn’t sound like this young man did anything so terrible – he may just have been showing his gratitude.
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