Make friends this summer!
Folks!
After seeing many posts about people looking to make friends on campus, I decided to create something to help, and I'm calling it Field Friends.
It’s a free, open source, no-download service made specifically for UIUC to match people into groups of 3-4 people based on interests & vibes!
It’s super simple:
- Verify your @illinois.edu email.
- Fill out the matching form.
- Get an email introducing you to your new group of 3-4 friends!
Note: You’ll always be matched with people with the same university status, so undergrads will never be matched with grad students, etc. Read more on our about page.
Data privacy is huge these days, so Field Friends is engineered around that!
- It’s open source: https://github.com/FieldFriends/field-friends-web
- Your data is automatically deleted once matches are sent out.
- Your responses are encrypted before they ever hit our database.
Matching officially opens next Monday, the 18th, but you can sign up early now at https://fieldfriends.org/! Additionally, matching will run in rounds every two weeks, so you can always come back to meet more people.
Folks, let’s make this into a tool that helps bring the UIUC community together. Sign up, get out there, and make some friends this summer!