We met at the University of Georgia in our Finance class, but we were ~strictly~ class friends. We didn't have each other's numbers for about a year and would use GroupMe to infrequently chat. Then we had the more difficult finance class, where we found out the group project would be 1/3 of our grades that semester. So Emma promptly plopped herself down right next to Alex to secure a good group (and unbeknownst to her a life) partner. After managing their stock portfolio ('Don't Stock Believing') in Spring 2017 together and getting actual cell numbers later that year, Alex and Emma began 'officially dating' in February 2018 (yeah, yeah, we didn't want to ruin the friendship). We did a year of long distance prior to Emma moving to New York (for reasons completely unrelated to Alex, duh). The rest is history :-)