This Professor Helped A Student Get A Date With Aristotelian Rhetoric & Twitter Is Here For It

When it comes to the best dating advice, we normally think of magazines, websites, or maybe even asking a friend. But Jake, a 22 year-old student at Salt Lake Community college, decided to think outside of the box and asked his professor, Shannon Atkinson, for advice on how to ask a woman out. Using Aristotle's modes of persuasion, together they crafted the perfect message for asking someone out on a date.

Some background for those of us who are less-than-familiar with Religious Studies or Aristotelian rhetoric. Ethos, pathos, and logos make up Aristotle's modes of persuasion. (There's also kairos, but that's not as common so we don't need to get tangled up in that here.) Each of the three appeal to different areas in order to convince or persuade your audience. Ethos is the ethical appeal, meant to convince the audience of your character, pathos is the emotional appeal, directed at the emotions of the listener. And finally, logos is the the appeal to logic or reason. And how do the three combine to make a convincing argument? Well, take a look:

And it worked! And even though the main point is that it was successful, I think we all take a moment to acknowledge the fact that he Instagrammed stalked her hard and has to pretend he doesn't know certain information about her. He is all of us.

"My only real input into this whole thing was having him really appeal to the pathos part of the triangle and be sensitive and cognizant of the ‘details’ of her life situation, as often in rhetoric of this type that is what is going to put him over the top, so to speak," Atkinson told BuzzfeedNews. "This is where Jacob brought up how she was moving, he wanted to create a stress reliever, and then the kicker, her dog.... I thought including all three would appeal well to her pathos. The logos and ethos sides were pretty straightforward and he had these pretty much settled."

Oh, and just so you know, the date went great:

Because it worked so smoothly, the internet can't handle it. People are loving this dating advice and wanting to apply it themselves. Here's what the internet had to say: