A new website called DateMySchool.com is offering students a chance to meet and mingle with other students in different departments. The completely anonymous website advertises “The best way to get …” and you fill in the blank, with everything from a boyfriend, a girlfriend, or a partner, to a hookup, eternal love, a booty call or an adventure.

Website designers Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer offer a way for students to branch out from their own departments and find love-or anything else.

DateMySchool was first released last November at Columbia University, New York University, Yale and Princeton. Since its conception, 5,000 users at Columbia and 4,000 at NYU have signed up. Now it is available to other highly populated colleges, such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Boston University.

The idea came when one of the designers dated a girl who complained about how hard it was to meet people from different departments at larger universities, or from different universities.

The website is advertised as completely anonymous, since users only need to enter their university e-mails and sexual preferences to sign up. Users then create a profile containing a picture and some personality information so that a good “connection” can be made. The website contains a chat feature so that users can arrange a meeting.

While this website appears to be working for larger universities, students at UNA are skeptical.

Josh Roberts, a freshman film and digital media production major, is opposed to it.

“I wouldn’t use it,” said Roberts. “The fact that it is popular is kind of sad. I feel like the natural way works best-just get out more. If that many people are using the website, there’s even more doing it the old-fashioned way. It’s worked for millions of years.”

Casey Fuller, a freshman social work major, is doubtful, but sees some uses.

“I think it would be a useful site for people who don’t know anyone on campus to branch out of their majors, dorms, sororities or fraternities,” she said. “I basically only hang out with people in my sorority.”

Most students seem to feel that Facebook would work just as well for UNA.

“I might use [DateMySchool],” said Jeff Bolger, a senior English major. “It’d be a good way to social network, but Facebook has kind of done that for us. It would be good for people not used to rejection though. Getting rejected on a computer is not as bad as in person.”

Josh Roberts feels the same way.

“Facebook has taken that part of the field,” said Roberts. “I’ve talked to people on Facebook I’ve never met before and gotten to know them. You don’t have to sign up for a dating website.”

While DateMySchool appears to be having initial success at larger, more populated universities, and in bigger cities where there is already more anonymity, UNA may still be a little too small.

“I doubt we could use it here,” said Bolger. “I feel like I already see all the same people everyday.”