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Y'know, I'm in my late '40s, and it's great. I can chat up a good-looking young woman, get into a nice conversation, really enjoy the conversation, enjoy the company, enjoy the view, without any hormonal-induced tension, any physically-induced ulterior motives, anything like that. Something I couldn't really do very well for the first 35 years of my life. (I like sex, believe me, but the urge doesn't GRAB MY ATTENTION every time I see a sexy woman.)
So maybe I know in part where you're coming from. Feeling as I do now, I wish in my youth that I'd had a kind of dimmer switch on something on my bod so I could tune my sex drive down when I wanted to converse with some woman as a person, then turn it on up when the time was appropriate.
Unfortunately, that's not possible. But you know, much of what you're talking about is what has interested people in monastic living; a simple life, no distractions, spiritual pursuit, hard work, subordination of desire (that's where the hard work comes in). Although it may sound anti-social, maybe you need a break from all your friends. Is it possible to give yourself much more alone time than you get now?
A lot of people can have a life that balances relationships, sex, emotion, achievement, and so on. And maybe you can, too. But for now, maybe you need to withdraw for a while. Start studying in the library; be somewhere else when they want to come by and bitch. Take a time out from the tumult, buckle down on your studies, and keep thinking about what you want.
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