She had a ring on her finger.

Not just any finger, but THE finger.

"That's a nice ring," I said, wondering what the hell it was doing on her finger.

"Oh thanks," she said after telling me how her fiancee and her have been together since she was four. She beamed, "I'm engaged."

Blech. I wanted to throw up.

As I tried to concentrate on my work, I kept thinking about the ring. It might be kind of fun to be engaged when you are in college. Then again, a Turkish prison might be kind of fun, too.

I still think about that ring, as do most girls in college. C'mon, let's face it. When you get into a semi-serious relationship, girls tend to wonder.

Now all you guys might be thinking, "No way -- my girl doesn't think that like that." You're wrong. She does.

She might not vocalize it, but she does. Now, don't get freaked out, it's not that she actually wants to tie the knot after her 3 p.m. class. We just like to think about it.

It's all about security. Every girl wonders who they will marry, maybe from the time they were little. Not me -- think "blech" again. But we all have the secret fear that we are never going to find "The One," or worse yet, we fear that a man will never think we are "The One."

So it's kind of comforting to think that you might have someone who has the potential to stand there at the altar and say, "I do." And for some reason, I think guys feel the same way, too. Maybe not the whole altar thing, but they might ponder it from time to time. I mean, what guy wants to wake up alone for the rest of his life?

So is that person, the one you're going to wake up to for the rest of your life, sitting next to you in your GeoSci class or scoring the last cup in beer pong?

Maybe.

For someone going into the real world with jobs and houses, spouses may not be that far away. So its not that outlandish to ponder once or twice how you would feel about marrying the person you call your significant other in college.

I'm sure that girl from my class isn't the only Penn Stater walking around with a ring on THE finger. So don't be afraid to wonder. Just try not to freak your mate out with the topic.

And don't worry if you end up graduating and not finding that special someone. There's always grad school.