Starting with a simple question: "Do you use online dating apps?", this episode explores the online dating culture among college students. Our host Selina and Miranda went to Washington Square Park and street interviewed people about their app experience. The answers were almost unanimous. And that leads us to a discussion of the so-called hookup culture. Professor Michael Kaye, former Senior Global Communications & PR Manager at OkCupid, also joined us and shared how dating apps help the LGBTQ+ community to identify themselves in such an environment.

Love is in itself a turbulent experience, Emotion comes like a rollercoaster except that it proceeds without a designated route. Alongside creating lasting memories with one another, lovers also need to cope with difficulties that come in between. In this episode, our host Selina interviewed her roommate Éos who contracted COVID during her recent trip to visit her boyfriend's family in Colorado. In the second half of the episode, we turned to three NYU students who chose online dating apps during the pandemic. They pitched in about some unexpected encounters there as well as the downside of virtual communication.

In this episode, our host Bella brought us to her summer in 2018 when she met her best friend Jiana. The friendship started during a program at Harvard University. The most innocent and affectionate connection between the two developed in a sheltered yet unfiltered space. What was so special about it? Bella would tell you that everything was special because Jiana helped her open up the part of herself that hadn't yet been discovered.

Does love always have to be romantic? Absolutely no! Food is a universal language, and the love for food bonds people, breaks social barriers, and bridges cultural differences. Eating well and consciously is also a means of self-love. In this episode, Hannah, who's known as @hanthefoodgod on social media, talked about her relationship with food, which began in 2020, and how this relationship with food helps shape her social and cultural identities.

This is a love story about Polaroid memories. In a fast-paced world, how often do we take pauses and reflect on our past? How do we remember moments of happiness and reconcile with pain? Like Milan Kundera said in the bearable lightness of being: “for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes”. In this episode, Gloria and Eric rewinded their encounter through their Polaroid photo album, and showed us how to pace oneself in love.

Essay written by Shuhao Guo, read by Sam Schrag.

Amid the pandemic, Shuhao and Kathy met each other through the Go Local program at NYU Shanghai. Their shared interest in food drove them closer, and eventually they fell in love. After 6 months of a run-in period, they are now living together in NYC, although there had been so much in between -- school, family, travel bans, etc. In this episode, we interviewed Shuhao and Kathy separately, and to our surprise their answers resembled one another : slow-cooking a 4.5 pound pork shoulder, favorite date spots, and transitioning from Shanghai to NYC. Is this a love story or is it the greatest cook show live?

What's the difference between falling in love and love? What happens after falling, do we fall out of love? In order to answer those questions, we featured Dr. Maleeha Haroon who teaches a popular course about Love at NYU in this episode. She offered us some insights into The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm as well as the psychological science behind. Our host Selina and Bella also shared some of their personal experiences with love. Thus, what is love to you?