Maybe movies are like marriages, muses Julia Moser '15 as she kicks off the summer with the unbelievably gorgeous and surprisingly serious romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement.

A recent Cornell study argues that cohabiting couples — partners who are not married but live together — are happier than married ones.

Dear Women of the World,

I am now accepting applications for the position of lifetime soul mate. The first stage in the application process is the following flowchart, or what I like to call "The George Yorgakaros Wife-Finding Algorithm,” created to add some sort of objective process to help me find a wife. 

Gul Gunaydin grad is a true expert on marriage between young couples — not only does she study interpersonal relationships as a graduate student in social psychology, but she also married her boyfriend of four years, Emre Selcuk grad, right here at Cornell in September. The two graduate students held their wedding behind the A.D. White House, and a friend from the psychology department led the ceremony with a group of faculty and friends in attendance.

Both newlyweds are originally from Turkey. After four years of dating and relocating to Ithaca for graduate school, getting married not only felt right, it was also convenient, given their living situation. “Since we would be living in the same house in Ithaca, we thought it would be convenient to get married,” Gunaydin joked.