Georgia Tech love stories
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“I was not much of a party-goer during my Tech years but one of my housemates was. I lived in a rental house on Hemphill Ave. One weekend in late January my party-happy housemate dragged me to a house party a few blocks away. There I met a guy I had seen around campus but had never talked to. Turns out his party-happy friend had dragged him there too. A few days later our paths crossed again at SAC and we started going out. Funny thing was it was almost Valentines Day and a sorority girl he knew had asked him to their Valentines dance. So in spite of having a new boyfriend I was alone for Valentines Day after all. I went to the basketball game with my part-happy housemate instead, so it wasn’t at all bad! That was the last year being alone for Valentines Day! We married after we both graduated and will celebrate our 23rd anniversary this June. Our oldest son started Tech this year!” |
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“Charles and I met during high school at a Model United Nations conference at Georgia Southern, but it was not until we were both freshmen at Georgia Tech that we found each other again and started dating (ironically, right after I had resolved to be single my entire freshman year—that resolution obviously didn’t last very long). During our four years here at Tech, we have had the opportunity to grow as individuals and together, and we both appreciate the amazing memories (i.e. football games and tailgating, formals, date nights, concerts, etc.) that we have been able to experience and share as Yellow Jackets. |
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“During Fall 2003 I was struggling with how to tell my girlfriend that I loved her. We sat at opposite end-zones for the Auburn game, so she was out of mind when in victory my big brother hoisted me on the middle section of the goal post. It was securely under arm when someone wrapped an arm across and over the top of me. I looked over and without hesitation told Angela that I loved her.” |
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“My husband Will and I have two versions of how we met. He claims we first met at the President’s Scholars retreat the week before freshman year started – he walked up to me and politely introduced himself, but I apparently glanced at him, muttered my name and walked away. I have no recollection of this happening, but do remember meeting Will after convocation and walking around campus together, during which time Will (literally) swept me off my feet so I didn’t have to walk up the hill behind the Library. I’m lucky first impressions didn’t count, because we started dating soon after. Most of our time at Tech we spent in the library or our dorms cramming for tests and doing homework, though we have great memories of Christmas dinner at Woody’s, selling cupcakes for charity at football games, and midnight walks around campus. We worked on the Technique and took CS 1371 together (an experience that taught us mixing love and class doesn’t bode well for grades). We married our junior year and found our first home at Tenth and Home as newlyweds. We’re celebrating our 3rd anniversary this May – Will’s still at Tech getting his Ph.D., while I’ve moved on to the corporate world. I’ll always thank Tech for my husband and my education – MRS degree included. :)” |
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“Lynn and I both work in fields that have proved prohibitive to meeting people of the oposite sex, so we both tried just about every dating site around. We saw each other on eHarmony … then we met on Match.com … then when we met again on OkCupid, we decided to give each other a shot. When we saw each other for the first time, she didn’t like my hair, and I didn’t like her shoes (OkCupid rated us as 96% compatible, and I think that math works out). We had a great night of drinking and talking, and when it was time to leave I wanted to make a lasting impression, so I used the best move I have. I turned around abruptly and left her on the sidewalk; not surprisingly, this led to a second and third date. After that we had gotten to know each other well enough not to need any tricks. It’s been about a year and half and we’re living together happily.” |
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“Ted Harris (CE ‘88) and I met during Rush at the Sigma Nu house in fall, 1984. We became great friends and hung out together with our group of friends during our freshman, sophomore and junior years at Tech. We dated different people off and on, and one thing my boyfriends and his girlfriends had to get used to was our friendship. Some didn’t like it very much! We went to Tech games, Spring Break trips to Ft. Lauderdale & Key West, Tunnel Pub outings. Finally, during our senior year at Tech, after 3 years of friendship, it was our time. We started dating and have never stopped. This June we will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. We have two boys, ages 13 and 10, who are just as big of Tech fans as their mom and dad. I am so thankful to Georgia Tech, which gave me not only a great education and an awesome college experience, but also brought me together with my best friend. Go Jackets!” |
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“Matt and I met through one of my roommates during the Fall of our third year at Tech. Even though we lived one floor apart in 8th Street West, we hardly ever saw one another. I actually thought for a while that he didn’t like me because he barely spoke to me whenever our paths happened to cross. During a Valentine’s party at my apartment, we discovered that we did actually have feelings for one another and started dating a couple of days later. We got engaged a year later during our fourth year on a spring break trip to Ireland. Now in our third year of marriage, we are both back at Tech. I work at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, and Matt is in the pre-med program preparing to apply to medical school. It’s hard to stay away from Tech, especially when it’s the place where you met your soul mate!” |
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“David and I met our sophomore year at Georgia Tech. We were both architecture majors trying to survive one of the notoriously difficult studio professors. We became good friends after hanging out in studio, borrowing drafting supplies from one another, trying not to pass out on our drafting tables after working on projects for days straight and complaining back and forth about our professor. The next summer we both went on a study abroad to Greece and Italy – we spend eight weeks touring around Athens, Santorini, Mykonos, Rome, Florence and Venice! The next spring we started dating – our first date was on Valentine’s Day when our friends from study abroad told David he should ask me out. We went to Figos, one of the best Italian restaurants near Tech (and still one of our favorites). David graduated in spring of 2007 and I followed behind two years later in spring of 2009. In that time we saw countless number of Braves games, enjoyed date nights and formals with my sorority, and prepared for our wedding. We got married a month after I graduated in Savannah, and now live in north Atlanta. We adopted two kitties, Artemis and Persephone – reminiscent of our study abroad times. We love Tech and enjoy coming to the football games as alumni!!!” |
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“We were both college freshmen with not a care in the world as we sat randomly across a lunch table at orientation in July of 2001. We locked eyes, gazed longingly at one another, exchanged kind words, and then Kamber completely forgot about Steven. As fate would have it, they would end up in the same Calculus class (because Steven registered after Kamber and tried to copy as much of her schedule as possible), and magic would happen as they built their romance on matrices and row echelon form. After Kamber finally remembered that Steve was that semi-attractive, awkward individual from orientation, she tricked him into asking her to the homecoming football game. After a couple of dates and a lot of late night study sessions, the two became a couple and seemed inseparable. They could be seen walking around Georgia Tech for the next 3 1/2 years often carrying the same backpack, wearing the same clothes, and wearing those same delightful smiles they have whenever they are together.” |
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“My new piece of advice if you live in on-campus housing: go to all your hall meetings because you might meet the love of your life! It was a random hall meeting our Community Advisor had scheduled, and I must admit, I was only going for the free food. So, Laura and I met over free pizza and figured out that we lived right next to each other. She played volleyball for Tech and I was just a “regular” (the moniker given by student-athletes for everyone else), but we formed a friendship that grew stronger and stronger over the years. We lived next door for two years and never had thoughts of dating each other (well, maybe we did, who knows?). She graduated in May and moved to D.C. for law school, and I finished up and got out in December of that same year. Over the next two years, we never lost touch, remained great friends, and kept up with what was going on in each other’s lives. When I moved to the Denver area, where Laura grew up, we randomly got in touch and had lunch one day when she was in town. The timing was right, so we started dating soon thereafter. It was a chance meeting, but one that altered our fates for the rest of our lives. |
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“Our friend Mike introduced us to each other while we were hanging out in Brittain Dining Hall during our freshman year. We became good friends and hung out often for the next 8 months, and gave dating a try that summer. Everything continued to go well as we made our way through Tech enjoying football, basketball, baseball games, and many other campus events(while also working hard towards those degrees!) We got married in 2007, and still live in the Atlanta area, so we enjoy coming back to campus often. We also enjoy our Beagle, Burdell, and are now looking forward to welcoming a new Tech fan to the family this summer!” |
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“During the fall of 2005, my second year at Tech, a friend of mine started pressuring me to meet her friend Matt. I was hesitant but one Saturday night, after going out to dinner, she tricked me into a meeting. I must say, I thought he was great from the start. We spent that week hanging out with fall break coming up that weekend. We didn’t want to spend the whole four days apart so we decided to start fall break with a trip to Durham, NC to watch Tech beat Duke 35-10. Any relationship that starts with Georgia Tech football is destined for greatness. We have been together ever since. Our love of Georgia Tech football was even referenced during the best man’s speech at our wedding and will be celebrating our second wedding anniversary at the end of February. Go Jackets” |
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“Ahh, a good old fashioned geeky romance… The shortened summer quarter after the 1996 Olympics, as we were entering our sophomore years at Tech, I was taking a CS class and had planned to meet a friend at his dorm so we could work on some homework together. When I got there, he was in the midst of playing DOOM and apparently couldn’t pry himself away for our study session. Luckily for me, his roommate Jamie (who had already taken the class) was there and offered to help me with the homework. A few days after our initial meeting, I called my friend and Jamie answered. I apparently had made a huge impression, since when I said who it was he didn’t have the foggiest until I reminded him about his homework help. “Oh, sorry, I’m just really bad with names,” or something similar was his reply. Over the next couple weeks we chatted a lot on Tech’s IM system, then on the phone, and we went out with big groups of friends and would conveniently sit next to each other. At some point I guess we started dating, but somehow it always felt comfortable and we got to know each other easily, without ever having to go through an awkward “dating” period. Thankfully!! Nearly three years after that initial summer of ’96 meeting, we were married, and now have an almost 3 year old daughter and a son on the way…he should be here this Tuesday, 2/15/11! I guess we owe Tech a big thanks for more than just our educations! Maybe one day our children will be writing their own Tech love stories…" |
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“Nick and I met at a dead week party freshman year. I was impressed, but I was dating someone else. We became friends, hung out from time to time and ended up dating over a year later. When we first met, he did not even know there was a psychology major at Tech. He was a Mechanical Engineer. We stayed together as I started graduate school in Animal Behavior in the Psychology department at Tech and got married in 2002. He ended up taking a few classes in the department and then got a Masters and PhD as well in Engineering Psychology. Thanks Tech for my degrees and an amazing husband and father of my children :).” |
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“My first quarter at Tech in the fall of 1984, I was assigned to live in the new Woodruff dorm. My roommate began dating a brother at Chi Psi fraternity. One night they invited me to a party at the fraternity when it was still located on 10th Street (now a TBS Studio). I met Mike when he was sent by my roommate’s boyfriend to "rescue"me from a conversation with a rather long winded fraternity brother in which I was stuck. Our first unofficial date was four days later when we found ourselves sitting near each other at Grant Field at the start of the JV Georgia Tech — UGA Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital football game on Thanksgiving Day. A week and a half later, he invited me to go to the home of Professor John Poston where a group of friends were going to watch Coach Bill Curry, John Dewberry, Robert Lavette and rest of the Yellow Jackets end a seven year losing streak to the Dawgs by that famous score of 35-18, between the "bushes"no less. (Dr. Poston was a Professor and Director of the Health Physics Program in the School of Nuclear Engineering. His son was also a student at Tech and a brother at Chi Psi.) For the next several years, most dates were to Tech basketball or football games, fraternity parties, an occasional dinner at Grumpy’s or Pero’s (where the Holiday Inn Express now stands), or a movie at the Columbia Theater (demolished for expansion of the North Ave. Presbyterian Church). Mike graduated in 1987, I finished in 1988, and we were married in 1989. Incidentally, two months after we were married, my roommate married Mike’s roommate. This year we will all celebrate 22 years of marriage. If the master plan works out, our son will be a student yelling “To Hell With Georgia!”starting in 2013, and with our daughter, we will “dress her in white and gold and put her on the campus to cheer the brave and bold”beginning in 2017" |
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“Many Techies have had to forgo a dinner with friends or two in order to study for a looming exam or class project. My experience tells me that exams will come and go, but you never know when that dinner with old friends might bring someone new into your life. So I made the drive to Chili’s, and I have to admit… I fell for the smoking hot redhead across the table that night. Anna was from out of town, and wanted to meet some Tech people before she transferred in the following semester. We kept in touch, and soon a romance blossomed over coffee and study dates in the shadows of Tech Tower. Two years later, I found myself in Piedmont Park asking her to spend the rest of her life with me. We’ve been married for two years now and I couldn’t even tell you what exam I blew off the night we met, but I can tell you I haven’t regretted that decision once.” |
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“Sean (ChE 2005) and I met at the Georgia Tech Alumni House in 2005. When he first asked me out I said “no.” Since he was a student and I had graduated a few year earlier I figured he just did not realize how much older I really was than him. Still we kept running into each other and casually talking. The more we casually talked the more I liked how maturely he handled the rejection. I also found out that he was actually a fifth year senior (and only 2 years younger than me.) We started meeting on purpose to train for the Pi Mile road race together which eventually let to dating. It did not take long at all after he graduated for us to know this was IT – we had met the love of our lives. We have been wonderfully wed for five years and have two fantastic boys we are raising to become future Tech fans!" |
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“Allan and I met during our freshman year. We both went to Georgia Tech, but we lived on opposite sides of the campus and had VERY different majors (him – AE, me – Psychology). We probably never would’ve even known each other if it weren’t for us both being bored without our roommates one weekend. We “met” first in a chat room. When we found out that we were both on campus, we decided to meet up that night. We ended up hanging out until the wee hours of the morning. We kept finding excuses to get together… usually to work on CS assignments. After a summer apart (and a lot of chatting online), we were inseparable. We got engaged on campus in front of Tech Tower and married during our Senior year. We just celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary, and we’re raising two little Yellow Jacket fans!" |
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“His version: I was a rough Yankee from New York and in the front of my 8 am Calculus class my first quarter at Tech was the prettiest Georgia peach…a real southern belle. She needed help in the class, knew I was a KA (yes a Yankee KA) and wanted to go to Old South so I started tutoring her. (Later I convinced her to change her major to Industrial Management because I knew I couldn’t “tutor” her for four years.) After a little while her friends kept pestering me to ask her out and being the stubborn Yankee that I was I said I would when I wanted to. The Friday before Homecoming she invited me to her house for dinner…with her parents. (I hadn’t even been on a date with her yet and I had to already meet “Momma” and “Daddy”.) I guess that implied that I was supposed to take her to Homecoming, so I did and that was our “first date.” We kept dating and the next year’s Old South she became KA’s Rose. From then on she was ALWAYS at the KA house. I think the brothers liked having her around better than me (to this day, I still think this is the case). Homecoming of our senior year I proposed to her at KA while “Rubberband Man” was playing and she said yes. I don’t remember what was playing because I was too nervous. But Bonnie tells me that’s what was on. All these years later, every time that song plays at a GT sporting event she reminds me it was playing when we got engaged. My mother had told me that graduating from college was tough and being married was too so I shouldn’t do both at the same time. Before graduation, however, I accepted a job in Birmingham and had a start date the Monday after graduation. Therefore the only logical time to get married was the weekend before Dead Week and we went on our honeymoon during Dead Week (our kids find it hard to believe Dead Week really was “dead” back then). My mom thinks we got married before graduation to spite her (Not really). After moving to Birmingham for a year, we moved back to Atlanta, and 32 years later we have raised two sons who have also graduated from Tech! We are a family full of Tech love!" |
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“Her version: We met first quarter of our freshman year in 8 am Calculus. I sat near the front because I was completely lost in the class. I spotted Jeff right away because he was wearing a KA jersey and I had heard about Old South…naturally he became my chosen target for a study buddy. We studied together and got to know each other better as we walked to 9 am Chemistry class that quarter. As Homecoming approached, he STILL hadn’t asked me out yet, so the Friday before Homecoming I invited him to come to my house for dinner where I lived with my parents (I commuted to Tech). Toward the end of that evening he still hadn’t asked me so I just went ahead and asked him if he was planning to take me. He agreed and that was our first date. We dated all through our time at Tech (I got to go to four Old Souths!) and before Homecoming our senior year he proposed to me – in his fraternity house room – while “Rubberband Man” played in the background. Everytime we hear that song at Tech basketball and football games to this day, I poke him and ask if he knows what song is playing! It’s a great Tech memory!" |
