Read Rachel Machacek''s blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. . One year of dating. One year of looking for love. One uproarious and touching memoir. . After years of dating without a connection Rachel Machacek vowed to try a more dedicated less slipshod more scientific way of finding love. So she committed a year of her life to trying every mainstream (and not-so-mainstream) method of meeting the right guy. In The Science of Single Rachel welcomes readers into the findings from her roller- coaster year and although she set out looking for the right chemistry what she discovers in the process is hilarious unexpected and infinitely more exciting.