Everyone’s favourite dating game
a. Pooja
Position: The court jester (social media manager)
Worst advice someone has given you about dating: people say you should never ask a woman her age… but how else am I gonna get her time of birth for cafe astrology??
What is your go-to pick-up line? Are you hot or is that just the holy spirit burning inside you?
What is your biggest red flag? I have 1300 hrs on the Sims 4
b. Patrick
Position: Poetry Editor
If your life was a movie, what’s the plot twist? Defenestration
Worst advice someone has given you about dating: men are men and mountains are mountains
What is your go-to pick-up line? I miss you
c. Olivia
Position: Arts & Crafts Enthusiast
If your life was a rom-com, who directed the movie? Dhar Mann
One song that defines your love life: not a lot, just forever by Adrienne Lenker
Worst date idea ever: Going through the camera roll…
Worst advice someone has given you about dating: That you’ll have to make compromises…no I won’t.
d. Emily
Position: Specialising in unflattering candids and expert in catching you mid-blink (photography)
Okay, but hear me out about: splitting the bill means splitting custody of the leftovers…
One song that defines your love life: different this time by cornelia murr
Cliche gestures you passionately hate: the candles everywhere thing… I would be too paranoid about the intense fire hazard to think about anything else!
e. Audrey
Position: Wannabe reductress writer
Worst date idea ever: tennis. every time I fail to hit the ball I’ll say “This is nothing like challengers” and shake my head vigorously in disapproval
What is your go-to pick-up line? I don’t say anything at all. I’m playing the long game
What is your deepest fear? getting a microphone shoved in my face on the street by a TikTok grifter
f. Silas
Position: Local pond dude
Worst date idea ever: You. Me. Waders. Standing in a pond for 5 hours. Wait… this is a good date idea …
If your life was a rom-com, who directed the movie? Some sleep-deprived and jaded second-year film student who is just trying to finish their final assignment
One song that defines your love life: White Noise Black Screen | Sleep, Study, Focus | 10 Hours
g. Manuela
Position: President of the Going Over The World Count Association
Worst date idea ever: …any date. But mostly going to the movies.
If your life was a movie, what’s the plot twist? The lead couple are actually spies for opposing governments and never really got along; it was all for the motherland.
Cliche gestures you passionately hate: Flowers. In this economy? Where am I even supposed to put them?
h. Michael
Position: Chief of Slander
If your life was a rom-com, who directed the movie? julia ducournau
Worst advice someone has given you about dating: what’s the worst that could happen?
One song that defines your dating life: party 4 u – charli xcx
i. Alexa
Position: Resident Pot Stirrer
Okay, but hear me out about: Binging 2010s sitcoms is a love language
Worst date idea ever: Watching Inception but it’s mansplained to you by a CS major
What is your go-to pick-up line? “Do you come here often?” in my psychiatrist’s waiting room
j. Sofija
Position: Roger, do you copy?
Worst advice someone has given you about dating: there’s always another train coming
What is your go-to pick-up line? please please please please please please please
What is your deepest fear? open doors
