BU Meetup Returns as GradGather for AY25/26!
Calling all graduate students! Are you looking to meet people from different departments and grow your BU network?
For the past two years, BU Meetup has been connecting graduate students from across the university into small conversation groups. Eric Wellers (LAW’24) and Will Saunders (GRS’24), the founders of BU Meetup, have now created GradGather, a new website to facilitate more and easier connections. GradGather is being launched first at BU, and we want you to be a part of it!
Here’s how it works: after you make an account at https://bu.gradgather.com/student-auth/signup, you will receive invitations to join matching sessions. If you sign up for a matching session, you will be matched into a group of 3-4 graduate students from different departments. Then, the rest is up to you! Schedule a coffee chat, go for a walk, give each other tours of your departments, or anything else you’d like to do.
Each match will feature a unique GroupMe chat and email thread to make coordination easy. Happy gathering!
For more on BU Meetup’s history, check out this feature on BU Today.
About the founders: Eric Wellers (LAW ’24) and Will Saunders (GRS ’24) joined forces with a great idea: to connect graduate students that are interested in meeting peers from other programs on campus. Originally piloted by Eric at LAW, Will brought his tech expertise to the table by creating an application to match graduate students into trios as an opportunity to socialize and foster community. With lots of work and determination, BUMeetUp launched in Fall 2022.