{"id":6694,"date":"2024-10-11T06:58:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2024-10-11T06:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:58:59","slug":"stunning-o-week-friend-group-forms-bond-that-will-last-a-whole-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/stunning-o-week-friend-group-forms-bond-that-will-last-a-whole-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning: O-Week Friend Group Forms Bond That Will Last a Whole Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BARTLETT DINING COMMONS \u2013 Social scientists are stunned by new reports of an O-Week friend group that has lasted an entire 14 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though a typical first-year friend group only lasts about one week (or however long it takes for the members to begin hooking up with each other, in what is colloquially known as a UChicago minute), this group has astounded observers by continuing well into the second week of classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d said Dr. Evina Stromberg, a researcher who studies the social habits of first-years. \u201cAn O-Week friend group that lasts this long violates all known laws of physics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shady Dealer <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently sat down with a member of this group for an exclusive interview. \u201cI love these people,\u201d said Thomas Benner, who founded the group along with four other first-years. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be friends forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At press time, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shady Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received news that the friend group had fallen apart in a storm of drama and recriminations. Reportedly, they had all started hooking up with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d said Dr. Evina Stromberg, a researcher who studies the social habits of first-years. \u201cAn O-Week friend group that lasts this long violates all known laws of physics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2080,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/2080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6696,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions\/6696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}