This is Planet Money from NPR.

There's this thing that happens every year on the Stanford campus.

Every year around finals week, undergrads all wait for this one email.

They're all going to get it at the same time.

It usually comes out late in the evening before midnight.

And if you live in the dorm rooms, you all kind of wait for this email to come out together.

All of the doors are open.

Everyone's doors open.

Everyone's standing in their doorway just refresh, refresh, refresh.

This is Alden Arraffordy.

And the email that Alden and everyone else on campus are waiting for will have a name on it.

The name of their perfect match.

The name of the person on campus that they should one day marry.

First, everyone gets this person's initials.

In hour later, the full name.

And it's very much like shout down the halls.

And I'm like, oh, I got a football player.

I run down to that side of the hall.

I'm like, oh my gosh, let me look.

Let me look.

I'm regugling them.

But then I'm still refreshing.

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