Cornell Sweethearts Share Teir Love Stories

By SOFIA RUBINSON Sun News Editor

As Valentine’s Day approaches and love fills the Cornell campus, The Sun interviewed eight Cornell couples about their love stories. Have no fear, current Cornellians: While some married their firstyear crush, for other couples, their love stories were anything but linear.

For Julie Vargo ’82 and Chris Metz ’82, their love story involved marrying other people before rekindling their friendship at a Cornell reunion. For Andy Atwell Ph.D. ’02 and Tina Atwell ’98, M.I.L.R. ’00, this meant taking a break until a long walk brought them back together.

Below you will find the stories of a few successful Cornell relationships. As current Cornell students are finding out their Perfect Match, their stories aim to inspire and serve as a reminder of the joys Cornell has brought to some couples.

As Ms. Vargo said, “I think that everybody probably thinks that their love story is awesome, right?”

Like Father, Like Son Angela Cheng-Cimini ’92 and Michael Cimini ’92 met on the second day of their freshman orientation. Ms. Cheng-Cimini learned that an old elementary school friend of hers, Todd, was accepted into

Todd is responsible for all of this afterThey started as just friends and near Collegetown through the woods,” Ms. Cheng-Cimini said. “It wasn’t terribly well-traveled. But the water ran under it and it’s a really beautiful spot. We would often go there just to enjoy the peacefulness.”

Years later, their son, Matthew Cimini ’19, decided to attend Cornell to study engineering, despite the fact that he wanted a different experience than his parents.

“I specifically thought, ‘No way I’m going to go to the same college as both my parents and then do the same dating thing that they did,’” Matthew Cimini said. “I purposely went in with the mindset that that was never going to happen.”

Cornell and reached out to him to reconnect.

“I looked him up, and Michael was his freshman year room mate. Had it not been for my friend Todd, we'd like ly would never have met,” Ms. Cheng-Cimini said. “We ran in very, very different circles. So