"Next year is going to be even bigger," Lindemann says.

Lindemann thinks that events such as the squash league are good way to foster a sense of community between graduate schools, which are not connected that well.

"It's true that there aren't that many avenues for grad school students [to interact]," says Lindemann, who, before the dinner party at which the squash league was born, did not know any students at the Kennedy School.

"The schools are vibrant internally, but not in terms of cohesion outside the schools,” he says.

Rahman say that a heavy workload prevents many graduate students from pursuing other hobbies, and that the squash league is an excellent way to get out and have some fun.

"Grad students do not explore the other schools as much, because of their course load," he says." [The league] forces them out of the library and out of the computer lab, and they get to meet other people."