We first met during the first weekend of freshman year in Maria was out in Mountainview taking photos of two guys on skateboards under Appalachian Dining Hall. One of those guys turned out to be Christian. We immediately had a spark and became close friends, but remained only friends throughout college until senior year.
We finally started dating after far too long! Since graduation, we moved to Kentucky, where Christian is in medical school and Maria works as a registered nurse. We just recently got engaged in June in the same place we met 6 years ago, right under Appalachian Dining Hall. It was truly meant to be. Thank you, Binghamton! I noticed Charles in passing in the lecture halls of history classes for a few semesters before I found myself sitting next to him in Dr.
The class only met once a week, so he spent a few weeks working up the courage to ask me out. Luckily, I was getting out of a relationship during those weeks and he asked me out for coffee at exactly the right time! Rather than spending the rest of our lives wondering what could have been, we decided to get married after dating for only six months. We celebrated five years of marriage this past October! Binghamton University, Hinman Living Community, sister buildings, freshman year.
During our first weekend on campus, our freshman experience writing class professor Al Vos invited our class to First Friday. After a night of exploring and a late-night meal at a Greek restaurant we could never find again, the group dwindled down to six.
Jeff and I connected automatically through our matching leather jackets. We played a game of cards on the Hinman patio late into the night, where the group got to know each other.
