How we met

By Daniel Reyes

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Starting off a new school year in an unfamiliar city can seem a daunting task. Compounded with the need to find roommates and other college necessities , it can feel downright impossible.

Cassie Rupp, Dighton, junior, was in need of a place to live when she turned to an unlikely source: Facebook.com. She used the Marketplace feature where she found her roommates Amanda Albers, Cunningham, sophomore, and Shannon Rutledge, Ft. Collins, Colo., senior.

“I don’t know if it was luck, chance or fate,” Rupp says

Rupp says she was more nervous about attending the University of Kansas than finding roommates online.

“We have so much in common,” Albers says. “We were meant to be.”

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