About Mark and Kimberly

Kimberly
I work for the federal government as an economist. I love running and have completed the Marine Corps Marathon twice. Mark got me in to swimming, and I hope to start biking with him too. I LOVE to bake cookies, cakes, brownies, and banana bread. My favorite color is green, and my favorite drink is calimocho.

Mark
I work as a forensic engineer. I'm on a kickball and softball team and love going out with my friends. I like running, swimming, and biking and am training for my second olympic-distance triathalon in Washington DC. In my spare time I play Nintendo Wii and watch 24 and Top Chef.


How did we meet?
At Boston University, where we both went to undergrad and grad school. Kim was on the dance team, and performed at all the men's basketball games. Mark was usually at the games and would talk to the dancers on the sidelines, but Kim only knew him as "the guy who mysteriously knows everyone on the dance team". During the summer between her freshman and sophomore year, the dance team took its annual trip to dance camp, driving from Boston to the camp at Rutgers in NJ. As the girls were packing their cars for the trip, Mark was there too! Kim finally asked one of my more senior team members who the heck he was and why he was coming, and she laughed and said, "You still haven't figured it out? Mark's the Mascot!". The dance camp they went to hosted a mascot camp as well, which he was going to attend.

What was our first date?
Kim thinks it was dinner at Sol Azteca, a Mexican restaurant in Brookline MA during her junior year, his senior year of college. She liked that he was an 'older guy', because he ordered a beer but she wasn't old enough to drink yet.
Mark would like to add that before the first "official" date he used to help with her statistics homework and she would come upstairs to his dorm room to watch The Late Show with Conan O'Brien. He later found out that she was not a big fan of Conan but came over just to be with him!