Michelle
Third-year, mechanical engineering major
What extracurriculars do you participate in?
Women’s Club Ultimate Frisbee, Society of Women Engineers
What does your ideal weekend look like?
Typically go out one night and spend time with my friends and relax the rest of the time. Although about one-third of my weekends a semester I’m gone for tournaments.
What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
I would like them to be taller on a physical standpoint but personality-wise I like when guys are funny without trying to be, motivated, a little bit of a guy’s guy and they have to love football, especially the Pittsburgh Steelers.
What music do you like (genres and bands)?
I am pretty much a fan of everything, with the exception of true country music (I can tolerate the pop country artists: Shania [Twain], Taylor Swift, etc, but they are not my first choice). Favorite artists: The Clarks, John Mayer, The Academy Is..., The Maine, Santogold, MGMT, Shwayze, Girl Talk, Wiz Khalifa, Cartel, Michael Tolcher
What’s your favorite food?
Frozen yogurt.
Describe your ideal date (not person but outing).
Something casual, like dinner on an outdoor patio and then one of those concert in the park type deals.
What are deal breakers?
I would like the guy to be my age or older and not a smoker. Definite deal breaker would be if he thought women weren’t capable of doing technical jobs or were meant to stay at home in the kitchen.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
At 30 ... hmmm, I would like to be living a successful life in my career and at home. I’m not sure what that success means but I’ll figure it out.
If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
I would want to be one of those tissue acrobats, I mean I know they are in Cirque du Soleil but the real circus should incorporate them more. It takes a lot of core strength and flexibility and looks really cool.
Paul
Third-year, biomedical engineering major
What extracurriculars do you participate in?
I am on the Phi Eta Sigma Exec Board (Treasurer), involved with the UJC [University Judiciary Committee] and tutor grade-school children through Madison House.
What do you like to do in your free time?
I play guitar and piano, love to go golfing and go to the gym a few times a week to exercise. I also enjoy listening to music, watching movies and reading books, magazines and newspapers.
What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
Personality-wise, I like girls who can keep a conversation going, are outgoing and are serious about things like school but like to cut loose every once in a while. Physically, I would like a girl to take care of her body — to watch what she eats (most of the time), who likes to stay active, whether by going to the gym every once in a while, walking somewhere instead of driving or playing a sport and who doesn’t smoke.
What music do you like (genres and bands)?
I’m a big fan of rock music, from classic rock from the ‘60s to the hybrid rock/rap smashups of today. Not a fan of country; rap is acceptable. Techno is good for partying. Bands: I like a bunch, but the big ones include Radiohead, Oasis, Coldplay, The Beatles, Third Eye Blind, Muse, U2, Weezer, etc.
What’s your favorite food?
Hmm, either a good steak ‘n’ cheese sub or a Chipotle burrito, or wait, maybe a good rack of ribs ... too hard to decide. It’s all too delicious!
Describe your ideal date (not person but outing).
Take a stroll around on a nice sunny day and talk, then find a field and toss a frisbee around for a bit, then go find something to eat and finally end the date with a movie. Hopefully we would have enough to talk about, so that lulls in the conversation would be kept to a minimum. At the end we would both want to hang out again.
What are deal breakers?
Smoking, overweight, much taller than me (I’m about 5’10” or 11”), so anything over 5’11” or 6’ won’t really work.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
On the cover of “Fortune” after my cancer-cure manufacturing company goes public.
If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
The ring-leader because I prefer to know what’s going on around me at all times.
Date: Friday, Oct. 3
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: The Biltmore Grill
Paul: I got there at 6:30 [p.m.], so I got a table on the patio and she showed up a few minutes later.
Michelle: I was a bit late because my week was [hectic]. I took a nap after school and I did not set an alarm. But I got up on time and I was only three minutes late. He seemed like a really nice guy.
Paul: She looked like she’d be fun to hang out with, someone that would be cool to get to know. The table was wobbly, and she used some sugar packets to fix it and make it sturdy, so that was pretty impressive.
Michelle: I’m not that picky; I just had a sandwich and some french fries.
Paul: I just got a hamburger. She got a crab cake sandwich. It was good, pretty standard; I didn’t want to go too crazy.
Michelle: We’re both from out of state, so we talked about that a little bit. He’s in the E-School, too, so we knew a couple of the same people.
Paul: I think we ended up being in the same stat class last year. We had a lot of classes in common, I guess, and a lot of the same experiences, so we could relate.
Michelle: We started talking about people we knew in the E-School and midterms. He’s Bio Med, and I’m Mech E, so there wasn’t a lot of crossover, but we talked about that and a lot of technical, geeky stuff. Then we talked about sports. He’s a golfer, and I play Ultimate [Frisbee]. Since I had a tournament the next day, I explained a little how that went.
Paul: She’s on the Ultimate club team and she travels around with that. That was cool. She likes to stay active, play a team sport and she gets to travel around to different colleges.
Michelle: We both have brothers that are seniors in high school that are doing a lot of the same stuff — applications and such.
Paul: We’re both the oldest kids in our families. Her dad’s retired and my dad wishes he was retired. After dinner, we took a walk down the Lawn. We talked about music. She likes Girl Talk, and she wanted to go to the show last year, but the person giving her tickets decided to give them to someone else at the last second. She ended up going to the Richmond show during finals week. I wished we had talked more about music.
Michelle: He lives on Brandon [Avenue], and I live on JPA [Jefferson Park Avenue], so we walked back the same way through the Lawn, then parted ways at the awkward construction walkway. I think the date went really well. It was a constant flow of conversation, not really any awkward pausing. He’s a really nice guy, so we got along pretty well.
Paul: I guess I could see us hanging out again but we’ll have to see what happens.
Michelle: A second date? Maybe. It’s a possibility. I haven’t talked to him since the date; I haven’t really been home. I did get his friend request on Facebook last night, so I’m sure you guys are gonna put, like, “Friended on Facebook, and she accepted,” as always.
Where they are now:
Paul friended Michelle on Facebook and she accepted. They had a brief exchange on each others’ walls but have not talked since.
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