How They Met – The Meet Cute

Her Story

She sat behind him in an introductory mechanical engineering lab in college and immediately thought he was cute. She actually stalked him on Twitter AND Facebook (embarrassing). Unfortunately, he had nothing posted on Instagram. Anyway, she told her best friend at the time that she thought he was cute, but he looked so frat he was probably a douche and very likely already taken. She forgot about him.

Fast forward 1 year and she’s a math tutor at the campus tutoring center (predictable, she knows). He walks in and calls her by name. She’s flabbergasted. Why does he know her name? Does she still know his name? She runs home and stalks him (Part 2) to make sure that she does in fact know his name. She makes a vow then and there that next time she sees him, she WILL greet him by name…so that he knows she knows his name.

She sees him in the library and, as promised, greets him by name. She actually takes it one step further and invites him to study with her. He whips out a text book- and let me tell you- she was IMPRESSED. Who buys a textbook? Let alone carries it around? This guy was obviously S-M-A-R-T.

They hang out in a couple group settings, and eventually he asks her to do homework in the library again. She wonders if he likes her or if he’s just being nice? Figures she’ll shoot her shot:

Her: Have you heard about the new movie coming out? It’s called Venom.
Him: No, what’s it about?
Her: I think it’s some kind of superhero type movie? Here, we can watch the trailer.
*She scoots over to his side of the study table and pulls up the trailer*
Him: Yeah that looks pretty good.
Her: … Yeah… I’m excited for it to come out, I just DON’T HAVE ANYONE TO SEE IT WITH
Him: Oh, that’s a real bummer
Her: … DO YOU WANT TO SEE IT WITH ME?
Him: OOOOOH, yeah sure

Fast forward to them leaving the library….she’s expecting a hug.

Him: Well…good stuff *extends fist for fist bump*

She proceeds to go home and cry because he’s clearly not into her. It turns out he’s simply a very endearing awkward idiot 🙂

His Story

Contrary to popular belief, he sat in the front row of lab because as an overcompensating first year student, he thought that anything less would equate to failure. Later in college, he transitioned into the second row of classrooms and in senior year, he was bold enough to take the third. This was in stark contrast to his freshman year crush, who would take the second row, complete her labs in 10 minutes. and leave without a peep (now that’s S-M-A-R-T and quite frankly, a bit intimidating). He knew it wouldn’t even be worth trying for someone of this caliber.

A year later, after scraping through his weed out courses all on his own, he had the revelation that it may not be the worst thing to ask for help. He finds an in person tutoring hall and begrudgingly visits it. Once there, to no one’s surprise, he finds the S-M-A-R-T girl tutoring math courses. He says hello and has a sobering realization that she probably doesn’t know who he is after she can’t recall his name.

Fast forward a few weeks later, he’s made his second friend in college, and they’re studying together in the library. Turns out, it was a mutual friend who the S-M-A-R-T girl knows. To his surprise, she stops by the table and with a suspicious confidence, she remembers his name this time.

Eventually, he asks her to do homework at the library again, to which she agrees. The exact events of this meeting are up for debate, however, this is his best recollection:

Her: Hey have you heard about that new Venom movie?
Him: No, what’s it about?
Her: I think it’s a superhero movie. Here, we can watch the trailer
Him: That looks great, want to go see it together!?
Her: Mhmm, let me give it some thought and get back to you
*Says yes upon follow up a few days later*

And the rest is history 🙂