Our story begins during Lock Haven University's 2015 fall semester. While almost dozing off during BIO102 lab, something caught my attention from across the room...there he was! I thought, woah...who is that?? Fast forward to spring 2016 and I'm stalking my CHEM102 class list, hoping that he's in my lab section...he was! Next step was to devise a plan to get him to be my lab partner, I had planned to get there early so I could have first choice of where to sit, it almost worked but fate had other plans...back to admiring from across the room. A few weeks later we both attended a Chemistry study session where Cole had to leave early for basketball practice, he took the leap and asked me to send him the rest of the notes! Thanks to American Horror Story and Wawa Fruit Punch, the rest is history. 5 years later and he is my best friend in the entire world.

My first semester at Lock Haven I sat one lab group over from Dana. I didn't know her name, but noticed she had her lacrosse stick with her everyday in class. The professor kept the door locked until class started so everyone would be waiting outside small talking, my worst nightmare. I would psych my self up every week to talk to her beforehand in the hallway, but continued to sit in my car until the very last second avoiding the awkward small talk. I was so nervous every week that I knew if i did work up the courage to talk to her I would put my foot in my mouth and ruin my chances. Fast forward to the next semester I was determined to be her lab partner. I thought if I showed up early enough maybe she wouldn't have a partner yet and could guarantee my self 3 hours a week with her. I turned the corner through the door and there she was sitting alone, finally I had my chance. We were lab partners for all of about 10 minutes before I had to move seats, again my chance was foiled. We had another class together as well and I used to use any excuse I could think of to talk to her. I would ask for her answers on the homework even though I already had mine done just for a reason to talk to her and get the ball rolling. I was drawn to Dana from my first day at Lock Haven and as we were starting interacting more and more I started to realize why. Any excuse I could use to see her I would. It didn't take long until we were inseparable and here we are, two little weirdos making our way through a crazy life. I'm so happy I found the perfect partner to do it with.