Meg finally came out to the bar with her classmates, but was doing her best to be responsible and leave at a reasonable hour. Dan was trying to get a moment alone to ask her on a date, but the moment seemed never to come until an unsuspecting classmate aided in Dan's pursuits by convincing Meg to stay for one last drink. As the classmate went to get the next round, Dan saw his chance...

"Woudyouwanttogooutsometime?!' Dan blurted out.

"What?" Meg asked, justifiably baffled by the mashup of sounds that came from Dan's mouth.

"Would you want to go out sometime?"

"Oh! Yeah! That sounds like fun!"

And so a first date was arranged at Winter Hill Brewing, where Dan wowed Meghan with his passion for all things history and Meg impressed Dan with her excellent taste in IPA's. A second date was arranged after finals, and this one turned out to be one for the history books. Starting at Boston Common, they walked west along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, north across the Charles into Cambridge, around Harvard Yard where they shared their first kiss in front of a bunch of statues who did not leave them any privacy, and then up Mass Ave to Davis Square. All told, their second date was a 7-mile journey that neither could forget, and it seemingly convinced both that the other was worth spending a lot more time with.