The first day of fall semester 2010 at Iowa State, Beth's junior year and Joe's sophomore year, Beth had just moved into a new apartment with two roommates, Liz and Lindsay. Liz was a transfer student that year, and she knew Ned and Joe because they all grew up in Iowa City. Beth had been friends with Ned since freshman year. Beth and Liz decided to go to Ned's apartment the first night we moved in, which was conveniently located across the street. Ned introduced me to his roommate, Joe. We all had lots of fun pregraming the night, and then Beth and her roommates decided to leave to go to a frat party. Joe asked Beth for her phone number! Later that evening, Joe texted Beth, and to her surprise, she already had Joe's number saved in her phone. Now remember, this is the very first day of the school year, we thought we never met before. But, Ned was known for throwing very fun house parties last school year, and apparently Beth and Joe hit it off because Beth got Joe's number. Neither of us remember this happening. So technically, we don't have a memory of our first meeting.

We became very close friends for the next year, and eventually Beth's senior year, we started dating. Beth was graduating, and Joe still had two more years at Iowa State with all the friends. Beth moved back home with her parents and went to UIC for her masters. We visited each other every few weeks for two years, Beth got to keep experiencing college with Joe and all the friends, and eventually Beth convinced Joe to move to Chicago after college. This seemed easy since most of our friends were moving to Chicago too.

Joe graduated from Iowa State and Beth graduated from UIC on the same day in 2014, and a couple weeks later, Joe moved in with Beth and her parents. We eventually moved into an apartment together, and we've been having so much fun with each other and all our friends.

Here we are now, dating for 13 years and getting married!!