jewishfeminist02: I don’t want to sound mean, but in fairness do you really think he wanted advice from a girl about his chavrusa question and do you not see how it is inappropriate for you to be answering a question about a boy’s chavrusa? It’s like a boy giving a girl advice on what to give another girl for a bridal shower. Not only that, but what on earth would it matter what masechta he is learning? You didn’t even answer his question.
To help answer: I would say that it is for sure worse to have a bad chavrusa apposed to no chavrusa. When you learn alone you can really stop and think about things, bring back to your heart and memory and internalize things. There is no one you are trying to impress, no one you have to keep up with, no meaningless tangents you have to run off too and spend hours on because he wants to talk about so and so. While a good chavrusa in MODERATION is very useful, a bad one is a lot worse.