The following is a short excerpt from the article which was originally published on North by Northwestern’s website in May 2017. To read the full article, click here.
At Northwestern, finding that special someone is hard. Any student reading this article will agree that life is hectic on the quarter system when you’re also trying to have an active social life, eat regular meals, go to SPAC (okay, maybe only sometimes), sleep (also sometimes) and join extracurriculars to make yourself look like the best dang preprofessional candidate whatever grad school you're applying to has ever seen. Try adding a significant other on top of that, and it gets even worse. For some, you even have to schedule in time with your partner, like you would a DM committee meeting.
That’s too much for some people and they turn to turn to what Northwestern students love to hate and hate to love: our hookup culture. This subsect of Northwestern student life has been bolstered up until now with Tinder, Grindr, and the lesser known (and used) Friendsy. However, it can get awkward when you see your TA on Tinder and strange when you get requests from people who go to colleges states away on Friendsy.
Confusion aside, sometimes the people you see on these apps just aren’t up to your standards. Maybe they don’t go to a school you like, are only in town for the weekend or their bio just has the classic “420 friendly” and a leaf emoji in it. You might be a little frustrated because it seems like you can’t break into either the dating or the hookup game around here. If you relate to this, there’s a new app out there for you: The League.