We're getting married!

While most people would characterize Sociology as the study of people, we prefer to think of it as our experiment in friendship and more importantly, our means of introduction. In the fall of 2010, we were placed in the same study group in our Sociology 101 class. As a result of that serendipitous coincidence, we tested our compatibility as partners for the first time and haven’t looked back since. Whether at Boston College, in Spain or France, or at our current home in Fenway, we have remained together as partners in crime and partners in life for more than 7 years. It was during that fall semester that papers rattled in Nick’s hands as he discovered an irrational anxiety about public speaking (focused on educating the youths one day, he later conquered his fear). Lauren looked on from the sidelines unsure whether to laugh or run to his aid (she’s always running to his aid today). Fittingly, Nick’s hands would be shaking again later that year when he asked Lauren on their first date to Tasca - and six years later when he proposed at the Faxafoss waterfall in Iceland. If we were to dig up the syllabus to “Sociology 101,” we might find in its abstract a lesson on the societal element of being human. Not included in this abstract is the magical element of being human: understanding when two people have fallen in love. Today we’re at the top of the class knowing that we have aced this aspect of the course.