Why Georgetown Students Are Clamoring to Eat Dinner with Total Strangers.

It’s hard to say what was more uncomfortable at the beginning — the silences, or the halting small talk people tried to make, about hometowns and the storm that was about to hit. So began this Dinner with Seven Strangers, a secretive group that launched at Georgetown University with an empty table set for seven guests mysteriously appearing on the social floor of the library one day, a very polished Web site, and an open invitation: Come to dinner.