Testing the Hypothesis 1

The opportunity: Making it easier for people in Greek Life to find dates to functions. 

Who: College students involved in Greek life that do not have a boyfriend, girlfriend, and doesn’t want to take the same person for every function.

What: Even though there is a Greek community, it is difficult to be in contact with people in other organizations that you may not have solid connections in. Even if you do have connections, relying on a friend of a friend is not always the best way to secure a date. 

Why: It is pretty stressful finding a date for functions and if you decide to take someone random, you don’t know how they will be as a date which could affect your time on the function. I think creating a way to streamline and make finding dates less stressful and more effective would be useful.

Interview 1 

I interviewed a friend in my sorority who does not have a boyfriend. She felt that finding dates for functions wasn’t too hard since she usually took her guy friends, but sometimes got bored with taking people from the same fraternity and the same friend group. Her struggle is that she doesn’t know a lot of boys in other fraternities and doesn’t want to ask a friend to set her up with someone. 

Interview 2

I interviewed my little in a sorority who is a freshman and has not experienced a date function yet. Since she hasn’t met many people she thinks this idea is great because she doesn’t know who to ask. She does think it might be awkward if someone asks her that she doesn’t want to go with, but that happens anyways. 

Interview 3

I interviewed one of my good guy friends in the fraternity I hang out with the most. He said he might be interested in something like this but has never felt stressed when trying to find a date for a function so would simply try something like this out of curiosity. 

Interview 4

I asked another guy friend who has a girlfriend if he would use this if he were single. He said he probably would because he’s never had to find a date due to having a girlfriend, so think something like this would be helpful. 

Interview 5

I interviewed one of my study abroad roommates who is older and in a different chapter. She was very excited about the idea because even though she doesn’t get stressed about asking someone random, she has had an unfortunate series of bad dates that her friends have set her up with. 

I have found that there is a need for this opportunity, more with girls. Guys would probably try it more out of curiosity but try it none the less. Obviously, not everyone has the same problem I do with finding dates, but I think the opportunity is there. Before doing these interviews, I did not know that my guy friends did not feel the same stress that my girl friends do when trying to find a date.