Match.com, PlentyOfFish, eHarmony…..with so many dating sites available these days, it’s no surprise that a substantial amount of relationships today start online. But what about us romantic hopefuls…in college?
Two lovely ladies at Columbia University developed the idea to start a dating site, DateMySchool.com, strictly for us collegiate lovers. That’s right, with this site you can breathe easy: there won’t be any creepy 50 year old friend requests or pokes from your younger brother’s annoying friends. To become a member of the site you must have a working .edu email address. Now you can automatically check “gives a damn about his education” off of your dating checklist! Read More »
When you think of internet dating, you probably think about your best friend’s 59 year-old father and his many (failed) attempts to meet “the one” on Match.com. Even if we were dismally lonely, I highly doubt most of us would allow ourselves to get so far as to post our own profile for the viewing pleasure of a middle-aged audience. But what if the dating site was geared towards college students?
Now don’t get me wrong, people can still do shady s**t even if they are a 22 year old Dartmouth student. The first “dating site” I saw that was remotely geared towards college students was the Craigslist personal ad section. No offense to any of the upstanding gentlemen on Craigslist, but I think it’s a little odd to post an ad for yourself on the same site that you advertise the cactus that your roommate peed on at your last house party. Plus, as we all know, thanks to the “Craigslist Killer,” it’s not exactly the safest way to meet people.
So what’s a lustful but “sick-of-all-these-douche-bags” kinda girl supposed to do? Well StudentLove.com has the answer. (It may not be the right answer, but it’s an answer.) In order to join their dating site, you have to have an .edu email address, so it does a pretty job of keeping out the Scary Larrys. But just because it’s there doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good way to pick up the hotties. Here is my oh-so-technical analysis of StudentLove: Read More »