Since my midteens, I have sought heartfelt friendships rather than romantic ones. Older relatives of mine, aunts and uncles, deem this a wise choice, especially the prudish ones who insist there’s still time. I’m still in college, but for me, it’s not about maturity but the widespread assumption that everyone is better off in an…
Drs. Ginger Yu Fei Jiang and José Miguel Orozco didn’t quite hit it off after they were accidentally assigned the same microscope in pathology class during their first year at Harvard Medical School in 2013. “I arrived to the microscope station first so I took it,” Dr. Jiang said, and when Dr. Orozco showed up,…
The following year, when he moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 2017 to begin a master’s program in public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she took a two-year teaching job with Teach for America at a middle school in the Dorchester section of Boston. And in 2019, when she was accepted at…
Though Allison Leigh Strickman’s first impression of Paul Clinton Harris Jr. was memorable, it was for reasons that Mr. Harris might have preferred she forget. The two met in September 2016 at LW’s Livery Stable, a pub in Charlottesville, Va., where each had come with different groups of friends. Mr. Harris, 31, who goes by…
In July 2019, after six years of long-distance dating, Drs. Maya Kailas and Amit Kohli were finally in the same city. Yet even though they shared an apartment in Manhattan, they still faced similar struggles when it came to finding time to see each other. “As doctors, we don’t get that much time off at…
Neither Kevin Gordon Neil nor Annalise Brittany Deal were looking for romance when they were introduced by a mutual friend in February 2020. Ms. Deal, whose relationship with another “Kevin” had ended six months earlier, had doubts about dating anyone else with the name. Mr. Neil, who was studying at Boston University School of Theology,…