Whartonites Make Penn Version of Grouper. We Don't Hate It.
February 7, 2014 at 12:36 pm
Making new friends at Penn is soo easy, especially as you get older. You just walk up to a rando in a big lecture, an open frat party, or the Gregory computer lab and BOOM, BFFs. LOL, not.
Enter GrouPenn, a new start-up by five Wharton undergrads to help Penn kids make new friends. Groups of three friends fill out a short questionnaire and then are matched to another group, charged $20 on PayPal, given a coupon to a Philly venue, and put in touch with the other group to set up a hangout. Then you meet up at Saladworks and EVERYONE STARTS GRINDING! Minus the Saladworks, unless you are matched with UTB. Then there will be Saladworks.
Although it is undeniably pathetic that we need a website and Paypal to help us make friends, we'll take what we can get. We haven’t made a new friend since freshman year NSO, and that was with an Allied Barton security guard (Max, if you want details.)