Week One: The Law of Large Numbers

Hey! Welcome to ThursDating, where apparently I don’t actually go on dates and instead spend about 36 hours acting like an idiot on the internet. But I’m getting ahead of myself…

Tinder History #1: Matthew, with the biting.

There are few things better than hearing someone else tell a terrible online dating story. It’s usually hilarious, a little embarrassing, and best of all, it didn’t happen to you! In the interest of context for anyone reading ThursDating (but more…

Tinder History #3: Colin, who isn’t funny yet.

I rewatched the Woody Allen movie ‘Manhattan’ recently and, while watching, realized a problem I’d been having with the subject of Tinder History #3: Colin.

Week Two: Ya Girl Gets Ghosted

After an unsuccessful first week, it was time for a fresh start! High hopes! And then…

Week One (Update)

In the last two days, I’ve swiped so much that every man looks completely identical, hit 350 total Tinder matches (over the course of the last year, but still: what an inordinately large number! That’s like one per day) and learned that Tinder actually has a daily cap on likes. That last one was…

The Punishments

Punishments are designed to encourage adventurousness. Since a) I live in the biggest city in America and b) I’ve chosen to believe that my personality isn’t the problem, the issue has to be my methodology, right? Punishments force a modification of that methodology (and, theoretically, make me a…

The Author

I’m a 21-year-old in my last year of college in New York City.

I’ve never had a boyfriend.

(I went on multiple dates with the same person for the first time last summer. Other than that, I’ve been on 2 dates total.)