While Vox reworks Date Lab: Georgetown, we’re going to divert our interests towards another romantic endeavor—Craigslist!

As anyone who has spent copious amounts of time online knows, Craigslist’s  “Missed Connections” forum is rife with anonymous love letters, penned by men and women who use the internet to find their soulmates. (Or at least, to track down that one jaw-dropping hottie they saw last week on Prospect St.)

So yet again, we’ve decided to play matchmaker for Georgetown’s most lovelorn. And of course, you’re invited to help track down the future couples in the comments.

Vox doesn’t know who “Kristen from NJ” is, but we’ve got advice for her secret admirer: Just ask her out, dummy!

“Dad, how’d you meet Mom?” “Well honey, she caught my eye with the sweet, sweet sounds of Boyz II Men—the rest was history.

Someone was looking for a bit more exercise than Yates’ elliptical can provide.

Check out the rest of Georgetown’s Missed Connections after the jump.

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This week’s male Date Labber listed “sweet’’ and “caring” as the first two things that came to his mind when asked to describe his type. So, we found it appropriate to set him up with a girl who seemed sweet and caring—she’s spent her time teaching in rural and underdeveloped communities around the world, and wants to use her intelligence and interests in international affairs to make a difference.

We thought the fact that she was older and well-traveled would stimulate conversation with a guy who would choose The Amazing Race over any other reality show to be cast on because he thought “it’d be awesome to travel the world and I would totally win.”

But we knew that if these two were going to fall for one another and take whirlwind, romantic trips around the globe together, they would have to have a fun side. Since he said he loves dance parties, and she spends her weekends socializing with the theater community, Vox didn’t think that would be a problem. So, would their attraction travel as far as their overseas ambitions?

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After reading the surveys sent in by this week’s daters, Vox prepared for comedic, lively stories from the two. Describing herself, Annie Baran (COL ’13)  said, “Laughing is epic, and I have a very sarcastic sense of humor and quote Dane Cook/Mitch Hedberg all the time.” She believed a guy might fall for her given that she’s, “hilarious and can have a real conversation.” Not only that, but much like the typical Georgetown student, she says, “I think I’m awesome and I’m obviously intellectual or I wouldn’t be here.”

Who wouldn’t fall for a funny girl who also has the ability to tickle your intellectual curiosities? Patrick Eronini (NHS ’12) seemed like he definitely would. He wrote that “a woman’s personality, intellect, demeanor, and [the] way she treats people,” are, for him, the best qualities for a potential relationship. He also said that when he finds his significant other, “I hope that they are different as far as just being able to balance me out, and be my other intellectual half.”

So, could a Classics Major looking for an “intelligent, charming” guy complete this pre-med Nursing major’s other half? Vox thought so…

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Maybe it’s true that no one is looking for true love at Georgetown. But who says you can’t have fun mingling while you’re single?

Don’t be that person alone on Valentine’s Day just because you think you’ve exhausted your options among the eligible students within your social circle. Let Vox set you up with a fine young Hoya that you might have never thought you had anything in common with. Not only might it give you the chance to expand your dating possibilities, you’ll score some free food and coffee in the process.

Vox knows there are plenty of readers who have wanted to participate in Date Lab Georgetown just as much as they have enjoyed reading it. So, go ahead—fill out the survey. Guys especially have the advantage, because we’re overflowing with female applicants, but ladies, don’t be discouraged! We have plenty of perfect matches for you too!

Will the real Vic Kmetich please stand up?

On the computer screen, the girl we chose for this week’s Date Lab and Vic Kmetich (MSB ’11) seemed like they could excite each other’s fun-loving spirits. Vic wanted his ideal match “to have some different tastes in foods,” because of his love for trying out “new cuisines.” Was it possible that our girl, a Southern, “orange juice elitist” from Florida might have the regional tastes the Ohio native might be looking for?

Vox knows there are few things more embarrassing than getting stood up for a date, and we do our best to send confirmation emails to daters’ georgetown.edu addresses before every match-up to avoid flakes and phoneys.

So, we were surprised to learn, after we sent the couple on their date, that it wasn’t Vic who showed up for his date with the girl we selected (whose name we agreed to withhold) … but his friend Jimmy.

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Kelly McAlester (SFS ’13) and Constantine Petallides (SFS ’13)

First impressions of a new place can be very similar to first impressions of a new relationship. When a freshman steps on campus for the first time, their new setting could turn them on or off. This week, Vox decided that it wanted both daters to be extremely familiar with that judgment call, and reserved this week’s couple strictly for the Class of 2013.

So, will a boy who “can discuss things on the TMZ and CSPAN ends of the spectrum with the same level of expertise” win over our girl, who likes “guys who are intelligent but at the same time willing to listen to other people’s ideas?” Will she be funny enough to satisfy his love of comedy?

Constantine Petallides (SFS ’13) was seated before Kelly McAlester (SFS ’13) approached the table. “He seemed like we could get along,” recalls Kelly, also noting Constantine’s unique and appealing name as part of her first impression. They began to talk about the general topics, including what they liked so far about Georgetown. Then, the conversation started to get interesting.

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Vox has had a lot of fun so far with Date Lab Georgetown, where Hoyas get together over free coffee and bagels at Uncommon Grounds. In its time as matchmaker, Vox has accidentally reunited old friends, ogled its participants, and helped a man whose ideal date is “being in Cloverfield together (and surviving)” enjoy himself without the threat of 100 slug-things from outerspace.

But our supply of eligible young Hoyas is dwindling. In particular, we’re low on men—so boys signing up have a good chance of scoring a date and free food in the near future. Fill out our survey if you’re sick of meeting people over solo cups and are ready to flirt over coffee instead!

Mike Durante and Leah Rappaport

This week, Vox conducted a social experiment, sending a sophomore girl and a senior boy to UG to see if sparks flew. To play it safe, we picked two students who said in their surveys that they both love to party (“I like classy wine parties or Tequila-[i]nduced dance parties. Those are my religious services,” she said).

She wants someone passionate about what they do, and he’s heavily involved with EcoAction. He’d rather date somebody who has completely different interests, and she’s involved in DC Schools and into art. Does age make a difference?

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Josh Rodriguez and Amy Chambliss

Vox had no trouble getting a sense of what kind of a person Josh Rodriguez (COL `11) was: the Texas native used the words “romantic” and “chivalry” no less than twice in his Date Lab Georgetown application.

Top it off with “want a relationship where I have a deep emotional bond” and “I am … well-mannered” and you’ve got yourself a Southern Gentleman—and a rather handsome one, at that. “On the physical side, I try to sculpt my image after Gerard Butler’s portrayal of King Leonidas in the movie 300,” he wrote.

We thought he might work out well with Amy Chambliss (NHS `12), who “genuinely care[s] about other people’s happiness” and typically goes for guys who come from completely different cultural backgrounds. Both are into playing music and romantic first dates on the order of long walks on the beach, and both use some form of the phrase “work hard play hard” to describe their party aesthetic.

On Sunday in UG, Chambliss ordered up an iced coffee, while Rodriguez got a chocolate chip bagel and a mocha smoothie. (“I went all out,” he explained).

Then, for about an hour, they chatted about Mexico (where they had both spent the summer, but in different locations), Reventon (the Latina American showcase they realized had both participated in last year), and guitars (they both play).

“We actually had a lot of things in common,” he said.

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Claire Mongeau and Michael Franch

When Vox plays matchmaker, it does its best to pair people up who share a sense of humor. So when we saw from their surveys that Claire Mongeau (COL ’11) is ”sometimes sarcastic when the other person doesn’t realize it, which leads to awkward situations,” and that Michael Franch’s  (COL ’11) perfect date would “end with us on the national news being given the Congressional Medal of Honor for ‘…your brave and decisive actions to save this Republic,’ kissing passionately to the raucous applause of the assembled Senators and Representatives, and having the President give us high fives,” Vox thought, “Bingo.”

Franch said his type is, “Pretty, and not crazy, because I’ve tried it without the ‘not crazy.’” About the wildest thing Mongeau admits to doing is mixing “all the different kinds of cereal together when I go to Leo’s,” so she seems on the level enough for him.

In fact, she laughs at crazy. If she were on a reality show, it would be America’s Next Top Model. ”Tyra keeps getting crazier and crazier with each season,” she wrote, “so hopefully by the time I get on the show she will have to wear a straitjacket and only communicate by smiling with her eyes.”

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