Spring Break
Long Distance love affair
College students spend months apart while their relationships last across miles
Holly Mohr / Staff reporter
Issue date: 4/28/05 Section: The Verge
Romeo and Juliet went to eternity for each other, so how far will Eastern students go for their star-crossed lovers?
Mindy Brown, a freshman journalism major, will be riding the long distance relationship roller coaster this summer with her boyfriend Matt Born, a University of Illinois computer science and Spanish major.
Brown said the two are high school sweethearts who have been together for two-and-a-half years. She said this will be their third summer being in a long distance relationship.
"We're comfortable being apart," Brown said. "We have our own lives."
Some long distance relationships don't last the first try, let alone the third.
"We've already gone through this roller coaster before," Born said. "I'm not worried."
He said one reason their relationship will work over the summer is because he likes to drive long distances.
Born will be spending the summer in St. Charles, Champaign and Canada while Brown will remain in Charleston.
Brown said they will try to see each other on as many weekends possible. She said they have events planned such as sailing and camping together.
"It'll work because we started planning early," she said.
Planning ahead will also help Sarah Rasmussen, a sophomore public relations major, with her long distance relationship.
She will be staying in Charleston over the summer while her boyfriend, Pete Wangerski, a junior exercise science major, will be living in Riverside.
Rasmussen said they met last year and became close after talking on the phone all summer. They have been dating for eight months.
"I'm going to miss him a lot over the summer," she said. "I'll be bored out of my mind without him."
Rasmussen said it will be hard not seeing her boyfriend since she's seen him all this year but they'll make it work because "they are in love."
Love might be the only thing that can keep a long distance relationship going strong.
Mindy Brown, a freshman journalism major, will be riding the long distance relationship roller coaster this summer with her boyfriend Matt Born, a University of Illinois computer science and Spanish major.
Brown said the two are high school sweethearts who have been together for two-and-a-half years. She said this will be their third summer being in a long distance relationship.
"We're comfortable being apart," Brown said. "We have our own lives."
Some long distance relationships don't last the first try, let alone the third.
"We've already gone through this roller coaster before," Born said. "I'm not worried."
He said one reason their relationship will work over the summer is because he likes to drive long distances.
Born will be spending the summer in St. Charles, Champaign and Canada while Brown will remain in Charleston.
Brown said they will try to see each other on as many weekends possible. She said they have events planned such as sailing and camping together.
"It'll work because we started planning early," she said.
Planning ahead will also help Sarah Rasmussen, a sophomore public relations major, with her long distance relationship.
She will be staying in Charleston over the summer while her boyfriend, Pete Wangerski, a junior exercise science major, will be living in Riverside.
Rasmussen said they met last year and became close after talking on the phone all summer. They have been dating for eight months.
"I'm going to miss him a lot over the summer," she said. "I'll be bored out of my mind without him."
Rasmussen said it will be hard not seeing her boyfriend since she's seen him all this year but they'll make it work because "they are in love."
Love might be the only thing that can keep a long distance relationship going strong.
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