Friendship findings
Ahead of International Friendship Day on 30 July, we asked our Instagram and Telegram communities to spill the tea on their NTU friendships in a series of polls
by Derek Rodriguez
POLL 1: Friendship origin story
I knew he read startup magazines like me, but we weren’t friends until we sat beside each other on a bus in NTU and had a fun conversation about startups that lasted an hour.
- NTU alumna Prukalpa Sankar on how she became friends with Varun Bankar, the co-founder of her data management company, Atlan
POLL 2: Friend energy
POLL 3: Friend-group identity
These results are based on 2,889 votes collected through polls run on Instagram (@ntu_sg) and the NTU HEY! Telegram channel in June 2026.
This story was published in the Jul-Aug 2026 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.
