Love is in the Air: Matchmaking Form Plays Cupid Once More

It’s Wednesday, Oct. 28. I’m watching as College fourth-years Aza Birdsall-Craycroft, Emma Kellstein, and Sydney Collinger, among others, are lying about Kellstein and Collinger’s living room. Each has a computer resting on their lap or in front of them. They are sifting through over 100 submissions from students across campus, each hoping to find someone in the third iteration of a campus-wide matchmaking form. The matchmakers, on their second and final night of connecting Obies, have made the occasion into something of an event. A dinner of zucchini pasta with roasted chickpeas and capers was prepared to fuel their synapses for the intense work of planning futures, and a half-dozen bottles of wine sat on the corner of their kitchen table for a wider post-matching Wednesday soiree. For the moment, however, they are deep in focus. Looking through the form submissions, they’ve compared interests to interests, types to types, all to find the most compatible pairs among the bunch.

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