Finally!

Amanda and Navid met on August 27th 2015 while preparing for their first year as graduate students. Over the first fall semester they fell into saying 'Good Morning!' each day as their offices were next door to each other. In the spring they spent a lot of time together and a deep friendship began to evolve through a shared love of mathematics, music, and movies. After a long day of working on solving the 3 body problem in mid-April Amanda asked Navid if he'd like to get a drink -- they walked to Deer Park Tavern, drank Jameson and Love Stout and talked until the early hours of the morning. As Amanda stumbled home (and Navid wobbled home on his bike) they both decided to ask each other out. While Navid decided to wait until the end of the semester, Amanda was too impatient and asked him out less than a week later. That summer Navid traveled home to Iran. The time he spent away and the moment they saw each other in the Philadelphia airport when he came back cemented what they were already pretty sure of --- this was it. There was no one else in the world that they would rather be with. 2 years later---using the same programming language he taught her the spring they fell in love, Navid proposed by having Amanda run what she thought was a program for his research. They officially tied the knot a few months later (October 12, 2018) to get the ball rolling on their immigration application and decided to use their first anniversary to celebrate their love with all the people who are so important to them.