re: I know I'm young...but how did college social stuff work before cell phones?

Was in undergrad 1972-76, where most of the dorms had one or two pay phones on each floor, we would actually give out the number of the pay phone closest to our room as "our" number. Freshman learned the first semester to never take a room by a pay phone or you would become everyone's answering service.

Most social arrangements were done in person, as in meet us at this place at this time. As was already said most people had a group of friends and a favorite hangout. It was a great time, but "hooking up" took a lot more work!