Connor began working as a Graduate Assistant for the Southeast Online advising team at SEMO in the fall of 2019. Katie had been working in a different part of Southeast Online, so the first day of classes that fall was when they originally met. As Connor likes to point out, their first conversation was pretty short. When they were introduced, Connor asked, “How’s it goin?” so Katie responded with, “Fine,” and went on with her day. Since they worked in different parts of Southeast Online, they didn’t interact much until Katie was moved to the advising team for the spring semester of 2020. By February, she was starting to realize that she may like Connor as more than a friend, while he had liked her since they first met but was convinced they would never be together… We all see how that turned out! In March, as we all know, the pandemic hit, so Katie had to move out of her dorm. Connor sweetly offered to help, but she was already living at home by then. They talked every day through the summer until they officially started dating on August 4, 2020. Connor proposed on August 26, 2021, at the first hole of a disc golf course in Cape Girardeau which may sound odd, but that’s where they saw each other for the first time outside of the office. He was very nervous and forgot the speech he had prepared, so it turned into some rambling along the lines of, “I love you! You’re my best friend! And… oh yeah! Will you marry me?”