And once again comes the time of year when Cupid shoots to kill. The Strand’s most chronically single editors have asked members of your favourite campus newspaper to….
Shelley Yao
Position:
Just some guy
What is your biggest red flag:
Up-to-date LinkedIn profile
What is your go-to pick-up line:
Can you email me your resume and cover letter
Favourite unconventional dating app:
Slack
Celena Ho
Position:
The Silly Goofy Section Editor
What is your ideal date:
loooove dates with a little bit of peanut butter on them
What’s your deepest fear:
Men speaking to me
Favourite unconventional dating app:
The discussion board on Quercus
Karim Arif
Position:
Associate Tea Spiller
What is your ideal date:
Dr Pepper picnic
What gives you the ick:
They don’t like Dr Pepper
What is your love language:
Receiving Dr Pepper
Raquel Lewin
Position:
scriptorium manager
What is your ideal date:
breaking and entering (and smooching)
What gives you the ick:
eating, breathing, emitting body heat, listening to country
Favourite unconventional dating app:
Yelp
Sara Qadoumi
Position:
Stock Image Generator
What gives you the ick:
seeing people wear those loafers with no socks
What is your love language:
baking for others <3
What’s your deepest fear:
falling in between the stairs
Chelsey Wang
Position:
soon-to-be carpal tunnel patient
What gives you the ick:
when they don’t read the strand 👎
Favourite romance trope:
frog and toad
What is your go-to pick-up line:
can i pet your dog
Kieran Guimond
Position:
Resident STEM student
What is your biggest red flag:
Youngest sibling
Favourite romance trope:
I googled ‘romance tropes’ and one of them was just ‘cowboy’ so let’s go with that
What is your go-to pick-up line:
Do you know how ducks have sex?
Charmaine Yu
Position:
in-house philosopher
Favourite romance trope:
when they fall in love with her after they read her brilliant Strand article
Most humbling romantic experience:
n/a – i humble others
Favourite unconventional dating app:
Facebook marketplace
Steph Gyimah
Position:
Longform Twitter Thinkpieces Editor
What is your ideal date:
We watch the Glee pilot and you listen to me quote the episode word-for-word for 48 minutes straight.
What is your biggest red flag:
Too funny, too kind, too intelligent, and too humble.
Favourite unconventional dating app:
The replies on a controversial YouTube video essay.
Lila Carr
Position:
Paper Wrangler and Punctuation Cowboy (credit: ChatGPT)
What gives you the ick:
Puts scholarship amount in Instagram bio
What is your go-to pick-up line:
Are you The Strand, because I look forward to you every month (production schedule permitting)
Favourite unconventional dating app:
Varsity Blues Roster
Dana Lee
Position:
Professional Letterboxd reviewer
Most humbling romantic experience:
Spilling an entire drink on myself? Falling on the ground? I’ve had many errors in mobility
Most embarrassing celebrity crush:
Robert Downey Jr but I am NOT embarrassed
What’s your deepest fear:
TMU students
Isha Rizwan
Position:
That Broke Influencer on a random Tuesday
What is your biggest red flag:
I like to eat pickles (sadly)
What gives you the ick:
hating on pickles aka the best fruit
Favourite romance trope:
the pickle theory (the olive theory but with pickles)
Anya Shen
Position:
sad bitch in chief
What is your ideal date:
i suspect you are a vampire, you save my life in a dark alley, we get mushroom ravioli
Most embarrassing celebrity crush:
rob pattinson and kristen stewart, collectively
What is your love language:
freudian
Kyleeanne Wood
Position:
Senior Coy Editor
What gives you the ick:
When they try to use dramaturgically in a sentence
Most humbling romantic experience:
Halfway through a date, they told me they were thinking of getting back together with their ex, and then I gave them advice to be helpful…
Most embarrassing celebrity crush:
Kermit [the Frog]
Michael Elsaesser
Position:
xoxo gossip girl
What is your ideal date:
basically the plot of before sunrise
What gives you the ick:
being anti oxford comma
Most humbling romantic experience:
traveled about 2 hours to see someone i liked, but got so nervous i forgot how to speak and backed into a mop before running away
