Both alumni of Mechon Hadar, Yael and Daniel attended the 2014 Hadar Alumni Shabbaton in Stamford, CT. Due to a too-important-to-miss Friday afternoon Calculus II class, Yael took a train up but didn't quite have a plan for getting home--she figured it would be easy enough to get a ride back to the DC area, right? Luckily, she met Daniel, who offered her a ride--and they talked the whole way home. Fast-forward to a year later, when they rode both ways together to the next alumni shabbaton, which led to a Skype chevruta* (studying philosophical questions posed to the 19th century Italian Rabbi Shmuel David Luzzatto), which led to Yael asking Daniel on their first date on February 28, 2015. The rest is history. *Chevruta = Jewish text study done in pairs