QC’s Social Ice Wall Unmeltable?
We’ve been building an app (Ubiq) at QC to make connecting with people easier and more modern (3D/spatial). Here’s what we noticed at QC that probably won’t surprise anybody:
There’s this social ice wall at QC that’s thicker and colder than almost any other commuter school. Most people’s lives look something like this:
- Show up on campus in time for your first class and often don’t interact with a single person. You don’t say hi to people and they don’t say hi to you outside of small talk.
- Find somewhere to hang between classes. Maybe do homework, maybe scroll socials, maybe spend time with a friend. Basically just letting time pass until the next class
- Go to the next class, wrap it up, head home.
- At home, have full social lives with friends and family that mostly doesn’t include people from QC.
- Sometimes these lives are happening right across the street from each-other in the same corner of the city, but we don’t realize.
So there’s fun social activities happening after class and on the weekends. Everybody wonders what/where it is but nobody knows. And there’s no way to find out.
The students are friendly and social, but the Ice Wall is structural - it’s embedded in QC culture.
We arrive as freshmen and others don’t engage, so by the time we’re sophomores we’re kind of “conditioned” not to engage as we play out the commuter routine.
You come in freshman year eager only to see everyone socially isolated so you then become that. So when graduates leave school with a fraction of the friendships as your average American grad. It’s like a silent robbery.
We’ve experienced this ourselves and consistently hear this from students at our events (Insiders, Hunt, Table giveaways, etc.), so here’s our unapologetic pitch to you: try Ubiq.
Drop content of your after-school life onto the 3D world, explore the QC school roster, see where others hang, say hello, etc.
Will it melt the huge QC ice wall? No - that will take a lot more. But maybe things can get more fun/social for people that try.