Now Kiss: Anthony and Meg’s Blind Date

May 6th, 2013 by Hannah Orenstein

Welcome back to Now Kiss, NYU Local’s blind date series that helps students find love at a “campus-less” school. Last week, we set up Jenna and Eric, who bonded over their mutual love of the arts and The Bean. This week, we matched Anthony and Meg because of their similarly laidback personalities, dry humor, and love of food. 

The match:

Anthony, a CAS 2010 alum who now works in television. He’s happiest hanging out in low-key settings with friends and says he would be played by Woody Allen.

Meg, a CAS sophomore, is a journalist who likes food trucks, dogs, and Allen Ginsberg.

The date:

Dinner at Bodhi Tree, a Greenwich Village Thai restaurant. Let’s see how the date went after the jump.  

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Now Kiss: Jenna and Eric’s Blind Date

April 29th, 2013 by Hannah Orenstein

Welcome back to Now Kiss, NYU Local’s blind date series that helps students find love at a “campus-less” school. Last time, we helped ignite sparks between Graham and Kelly. This week, we brought together two Violets who happen to have a laundry list of interests in common… but will timing keep them apart?

The match:

Jenna, a Tisch student who loves theater, GIRLS, and her too-cute-for-words cat and dog.

Eric, a CAS student, slam poet and published author. Chris Pratt would star in his biopic.

The date: 

Coffee at The Bean, Jenna and Eric’s mutual favorite coffee shop. Let the date begin.

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Now Kiss: Graham and Kelly’s Blind Date

March 15th, 2013 by Hannah Orenstein

Welcome back to Now Kiss, NYU Local’s blind date series that helps students find love at a “campus-less” school. In previous installments, sparks flew between Mark and Weston, but Cupid totally tanked when she set up Chris and Julia. (In the wise words of Hannah Montana, everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.) We think this date is pretty sweet: two bright-eyed freshmen finding love — or at the very least, delicious Ukrainian food — in this great city of ours. Read more…


Now Kiss: Mark and Weston’s Blind Date

February 11th, 2013 by Hannah Orenstein

Finding a date in New York isn’t as easy as Sex and the City would have you believe. Unless you’re still with your high school sweetheart, met your soulmate while reaching for the same book at Bobst, or are brave enough to try Date My School (or NYU Hook Ups — we won’t judge), you might find yourself without a Valentine this year.

NYU Local wants to solve your romantic woes with our new column, Now Kiss. Armed with a batch of Cupid’s arrows, we want to set you up with another NYU student on a blind date. Read more…


Violets Are Blue: Closing In On Your First-Week Crush

January 29th, 2013 by Ashley D'Arcy

Love stinks, yeah, yeah. And when you’re a student at NYU, not just love, but also like and lust all stink. Really bad. So here’s NYU Local’s newest column on dating: Violets Are Blue. Because we’re Violets. And we’re blue because we’re not getting any. Check in for regular updates on how to add a little romance in your life as an NYU Violet (just don’t tell Bobcat we’re cheating on him).

If you haven’t already looked up everyone on your roster before the first day of class, this is the week of waiting with bated breath and exposed ankle for the appearance of your semester-long love interest. Against the backdrop of your professor projecting your syllabus and carrying on about plagiarism, love (like, or maybe lust, rather) begins to bloom.

Some of us at NYU Local have repeatedly made the mistake of waiting until the semester’s end before laying our game on thick enough for any potential lover to notice. Our seniors especially have learned from seven bygone semesters that this week, right now, is the gestation period (to use a very appropriate, scary metaphor) that will actually yield whatever you are looking for: a date, a hookup, a spouse. So, what to do?

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NYU Hook Ups: A Facebook Page To Help You Lose Your Virginity Before Winter Break

December 17th, 2012 by Chelsea Beeler

This past weekend NYU Hook Ups — a new dating site (if you can even call it that) geared towards the sexually unsatisfied students of NYU — surfaced on Facebook and has quickly gained attention from a lot of weirdos and a few girls. Inspired by NYU Memes, NYU Secrets, and NYU Compliments, NYU Hook Ups serves to match the lonely hearts of NYU based on gender, school, year, sexual orientation, and desired mate, but ends up looking like some busted version of Seeking Arrangement, except it assumes that everyone’s poor.

The site—which somehow guarantees 110% anonymity—currently hosts a wide variety of posts from freshman, grad students, and Sternies (to name a few), and promises only to cater to NYU students, although a Trinity undergrad seems to have mysteriously passed the two-step NYU student verification process. Read more…


Straight/Gay/Taken: Three CAS Students Sneak In To Stern Speed Dating

February 14th, 2012 by Eric Silver, Ian Hartz, and Sharon Wu

Here at NYU Local, we love going to places we weren’t invited. That’s why we hang out in John Sexton’s office when he’s not around. This time, we’re adventuring into unmarked territory on behalf of love: Monday’s Stern Speed Dating event, held in the Tisch Hall Commerce Room at the very sexy time of 12:30pm.

This is how it worked: Every guy sat across from a girl and the moderator asked questions about love, dating, and relationships. Each duo had a few minutes to discuss their answers before the men rotated to the right. Every person was given the chance to talk to about ten people. There were approximately 50 people seated at three different tables, each littered with silver heart-shaped confetti, cupcakes of all kinds, chocolate-covered strawberries, and cups of sparkling apple cider. The advisory board who organized the afternoon spent approximately $1,500 on the hour-long event.

Inspired by our previous ‘Two CAS Students Sneak Into A Stern Class And Liveblog It,” and coupled with the misadventures of our Drunk/Sober/High series, we bring you Straight/Gay/Taken, an examination of the strange and wondrous terrain of the Stern love life.  Read more…


Dating Your TA: Yay Or Nay?

February 13th, 2012 by Sharon Wu

Whether or not one might be willing to admit it, everyone has been attracted to a teacher at some point during his or her 12+ years of schooling. But in college, these fantasies are much more realistic possibilities because we’re all legal adults and we have a new degree of autonomy outside of our parents’ homes. Coupled with our developing passions for what we study, an encounter with someone with a depth of knowledge in our field can be incredibly alluring.

Yes, professors can be hot because they’re intelligent, accomplished, published, and passionate. However, they can also be intimidating, married, and, let’s be honest, old.

But what about TAs? They walk the fine line between equal and superior. They’re students too, and often close in age, but they hold a degree of power over us, specifically when it comes to grades. And they too are usually intelligent, accomplished, published, and passionate. We experience our TAs in a much more relaxed, casual setting. Unlike a professor’s lecture, a TA’s recitation involves discussion and gradual acquaintanceship. All of this makes them much more likely candidates for dating and relationships.  Read more…


DateMySchool Expands to 600 Colleges, 25 Percent Of NYU Students Have An Account

November 1st, 2011 by Jocelyn Silver

On Wednesday October 19th, college dating school DateMySchool (DMS) expanded to 600 campuses nationwide. Students from across the country can now find a new college-educated fuckbuddy (or a fiancée, like these insane people). DMS only started last November, and has grown to 55,000 members. In a rather shocking statistic perhaps representative of NYU’s (slightly pathetic) dating scene, 25% of students, as in 6,500 of them, have accounts.

What was once an NYU and Columbia-centric site has gotten huge, and they plan to expand even further. Thousands of users come from Harvard, MIT and Michigan State, and since the expansion hundreds of students join the site each day from Rutgers, University of Colorado Boulder, Virginia Tech and UNC-Charlotte among others. New York is still the largest base for DMS, but they’re nationally known and growing every day.

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