College students are using Google Calendar to arrange connections

At least they are learning time management.

Students on campuses across the United States are reportedly using Google Calendar to arrange their color-coded blocks throughout the day and weeks, from lunch to casual parties with friends, and even having sex.

Elijah Diallo tries to figure out how to move a cute girl in his theater group and talks with his friends at Williams College in Massachusetts at the end of the big year.

Then, an idea: He sent the girl a calendar invitation titled “Hook?” next Friday at 11:30 pm

“She responded with ‘yes’ and then what’s left is history,” Diallo told the Wall Street Journal.

“If I were to act, I had to at least make it interesting,” he added. “Google Calendar has such a place in all the collective psychology of Williams College and it feels like the ideal way to execute it.”

Diallo isn’t the only college student to use Google Calendar to help his love life.

Asuka Koda, a Yale student, told WSJ that classmates were dating on a busy day. She sent him a screenshot of Google Calendar so he could arrange it accordingly.

“From 5pm to 6pm, he kicked himself in a very awkward time because it was on my GCAL and I did go,” she said, although the second date never happened.

Zoomers uses apps for almost everything. When Cornell student Vanessa Long first received a calendar invitation with the idea of “Come to my dormitory?” planned at 10 p.m., she was confused.

She later realized that it was common to arrange to hang out with your friends on campus.

In Cornell, Long said they use what’s called “GCAL” in everything: when they sleep, when they eat, if they’re going to go for a five-minute walk, if they want to have lunch with you in a restaurant on one of the campus you go to every day. ”

“I thought I was the peak of the tissue and it turned out that I didn’t even scratch the surface,” she said.

For many people, it is a relief to always know where they need to go and not risk losing something.

“A lot of things are happening all the time, so don’t think about it, just one reference, ‘Well, that’s what I’m going to do next,” Kaitlin Martin, a senior at Georgetown University, told the Journal.

However, others, such as Stanford sophomore Vivek Yarlagedda, found that the entire interaction problem was “to the extent to which we let the calendar determine our lives.”

“It’s unnatural to text someone a calendar link, like ‘Let’s catch up,'” Yarlgedda said.