A cheesy love story!
Nine years ago on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, first-year student Maithili Appalwar asked out her crush, Yash Punjabi, on a date “in the cheesiest way possible — by writing it on a piece of cheese,” she recalled on Instagram in November 2024 engagement announcement post.
“18-year-old me wasn’t really thinking of this as my proposal location, so I did it right next to a dumpster,” Appalwar remembered about the January 2015 moment outside of Smith Residence Hall.
Appalwar, an industrial engineering major, and Punjabi, a computer science major, continued dating before they graduated from Georgia Tech, completed their MBAs at Wharton in Philadelphia and moved to India to start their careers in the industrial packaging industry.
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