CHICAGO — They acknowledge they’re nerds and sometimes use words only a nerd at a school known for churning them out would understand, but the students at the University of Chicago — including one who is tired of being looked at as “a human calculator” — now have their own online matchmaking site.
Students can register at UChicago Hookups to meet someone who has posted under the headline “Awkward Nerd Looking for Bookish Girl” or “Lets Integrate Our Curves” or “Aqueous Explorer Looking for an Impromptu Trans-Pacific Adventure.”
In the month it has been in operation, UChicago Hookups has more than 300 registered users who have sent more than 1,300 messages.
But there are plenty of posts with obscene headlines and even more obscene and crass notes that could have come out of any frat house or junior high locker room.
School officials refuse to talk about the site.
