{"id":4698,"date":"2021-02-06T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2021-02-06T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T22:16:10","slug":"when-the-world-needed-it-most-datamatch-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/06\/when-the-world-needed-it-most-datamatch-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"When the world needed it most, Datamatch Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year. What? It’s only February? Well between attempted coups and unstable internet connections, we here at the Chicago Shady Dealer<\/em> have had our hands full. Not full enough to forget Datamatch though!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, folks, it\u2019s that time again: your favorite event of lockdown, nay, Winter Quarter, nay the year, is back! Datamatch, the most effective matchmaking experiment since Zoom’s gallery view, has returned\u2014this time with more insightful questions, and what the press is calling \u201ca lot of hype for an online quiz.\u201d<\/p>\n

The history of Datamatch at the University of Chicago is a long and noble one, going all the way back to February 2019. Harvard called, and we answered. They offered us thirty bucks to write and administer a romance-provoking quiz for UChicago students; we politely declined. Then they raised that offer to thirty five, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s iteration of Datamatch promises to be the best one yet, and with 33% percent student body participation last year, things have nowhere to go but up! The questions are witty, revealing, and guaranteed to distract you from your boring p-set. It\u2019s sooooo easy: starting at midnight February 7th, go to https:\/\/datamatch.me<\/a>\u00a0and make an account with your uchicago email; simply answer the questions, and you\u2019re done! Then on February 14th you will be matched with either your algorithmically approved soulmate or your algorithmically approved best friend. We promise that in either case you\u2019ll find someone prettier than you to talk to, and isn\u2019t that kinda the dream?<\/p>\n

Good luck, and happy matching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year. What? It’s only February? Well between attempted coups and unstable internet connections, we here at the Chicago Shady Dealer have had our hands full. Not full enough to forget Datamatch though! That\u2019s right, folks, it\u2019s that time again: your favorite event of lockdown, nay, Winter Quarter, nay the year, is back! Datamatch, the most effective matchmaking experiment since Zoom’s gallery view, has returned\u2014this time with more insightful questions, and what the press is calling \u201ca lot of hype for an online quiz.\u201d The history of Datamatch at the University of Chicago is a long and noble one, going all the way back to February 2019. Harvard called, and we answered. They offered us thirty bucks to write and administer a romance-provoking quiz for UChicago students; we politely declined. Then they raised that offer to thirty five, and the rest is history. This year\u2019s iteration of Datamatch promises to be the best one yet, and with 33% percent student body participation last year, things have nowhere to go but up! The questions are witty, revealing, and guaranteed to distract you from your boring p-set. It\u2019s sooooo easy: starting at midnight February 7th, go to https:\/\/datamatch.me\u00a0and make an account with your uchicago email; simply answer the questions, and you\u2019re done! Then on February 14th you will be matched with either your algorithmically approved soulmate or your algorithmically approved best friend. We promise that in either case you\u2019ll find someone prettier than you to talk to, and isn\u2019t that kinda the dream? Good luck, and happy matching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4713,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}