Love can be found almost anywhere. Love can be found at almost any point in a lifetime.

But for most, the pressure seems to be on finding love during the college years. There is a myth that if you don’t find a lifetime mate while attending college, you never will.

Never ever.

While married friends will be carting kids to soccer practice in their minivan with “CYMOM” license plates, a single person at graduation will be a single person for life.

The single is alone and unhappy. While other college graduates had diamonds with their diplomas, all you have to look forward to is a life of loneliness clutching a cat while watching reruns of “The Golden Girls.”

Feeling doomed?

Don’t worry, there are lots of ways to meet a partner after college.

And despite what your mother says, the best way is the one that is accessible, cheap and can be done from the comfort of your home.

That place is the Internet.

Mr. or Ms. Wonderful is looking for you right now on the World Wide Web.

One Web site, www.connectionzone.com, calls itself the No. 1 online romance and relationship site for those 25 and older.

“Find your perfect partner from one in a million,” is the main claim the site makes to its viewers.

And meeting someone and falling in love is so easy to do on the site. All you have to do is pick a screen name like “Innocent Iowa Girl” and then the company gives the user a romantic password like “Giveittomenow.”

Then after filling out a short questionnaire about hair color, number of children, height and build (choices include petite, small, medium, muscular, overweight and considerably overweight), the site shows you available mates who live in your area, and who are ready and looking for you.

For women looking for a man already married looking for something better, they can find it on the site.

Only on the Internet can you find such nonsense.

When I tried this popular computer singles bar, I found 180 men in Iowa who were just waiting to meet me. They were all looking for a “smart, sexy woman looking to have a good time.”

Well of course this lead them to me.

But 180 men? Looking for me? I don’t think I’ve meet 180 guys interested in me during my four years at Iowa State.

So after cruising through this site and checking out my choices, I was still craving more men.

The love listing that filled the void was www.jaildudes.com and www.jailbabes.com featuring handcuffed women in search for love.

One of the featured ladies, Cassandra, is a 32-year-old, single African-American woman with a high school education looking for a man between the ages of 21 and 81.

Her bio reads: “Hi. My name is Cassandra and I’m the babe you’ve been searching for. I am unique and like a breath of fresh air. I am fun loving, pretty, spontaneous, energetic, intelligent and ambitious.”

Plus Cassandra is available on June 15, 2006. That is when she is scheduled to be released from jail.

This site is one-stop shopping for a single. The bio has an attractive photo, basic profile including measurements, ethnicity and martial status.

But for some strange reason it doesn’t tell what the happy single is in jail for.

I wonder why that is.

The purpose of the site, according to the organizers, is to “assist men and women who are looking to find a new casual pen pal or the more serious minded men and women who are looking for a committed relationship with Jail Babes.”

The price for the these services is only $7.

So for a less than $10, anyone can find a pen pal. And not just any pen pal, but a pen pal in jail looking for love.

Love can be found anywhere.

Even on the Internet.

If you are looking for a man, the perfect one is not at the grocery store, library or classroom. He might be in a jail just waiting for your first letter.

Just waiting to make parole and have that first date.

Michelle Kann is a senior in journalism and mass communication from Garnavillo. She is newsroom managing editor of the Daily.