Mason and I met in seventh grade at Longfellow Middle School. We were friends throughout middle school, and were in English, Spanish, and Gym class together. When I came home on the first day of class, I told my Mom excitedly "Mom, I met a boy!!" We started dating in tenth grade. I knew he liked me, so I just told him "hey, I'm just going to assume we're dating." We've been together since! We're celebrating our tenth anniversary in September. We went to William & Mary together, and are now at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where Mason is about to graduate with his law degree, and I am working on my Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences Ph.D.