Priya

Priya grew in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. She went to high school in Camp Hill, where she was a bit of a nerd, and then to Carnegie Mellon University, where she remained a nerd. After spending a lovely 5 years in Pittsburgh she moved to Washington DC to attend medical school at Georgetown University. She is currently in her fourth year and excited to (hopefully) become a pediatrician in the near future!

John

John moved around as a kid, but spent most of his time in upstate New York and Massachusetts. He went to the University of Pittsburgh, in his dad’s hometown, and worked as a geologist in Massachusetts and Colorado before moving to Texas. After finishing his MS in geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin he moved to Houston to work for a large faceless corporation, which is where he is today!

How they met

They both still remember this, even though it was almost six years ago! As you may have seen above, both Priya and John attended university in Pittsburgh. While he was at the University of Pittsburgh, and she at Carnegie Mellon University, they ended up having several mutual friends while still never actually knowing of each other's existence.

Until, that is, a party of some of these friends on a cold night in the spring of 2009! John was still on crutches, recovering from a cycling accident, and so was much more intriguing than normal. They began talking, found each other quite agreeable, and John asked her out later that week on their first date! Priya's friends from CMU still probably know John better as John Crutch, in honor of that evening.

They spent the remaining two years of undergraduate together in Pittsburgh, and have since been bouncing around the country for various jobs, medical school, and graduate school. They are both very much looking forward to finally being reunited in the same place next year!

The proposal (Priya's perspective)

One weekend John took Priya up to Austin from Houston, seemingly to visit friends. Saturday morning John suggested going to some of our favorite spots around Austin (including Whole Foods for pastries!) and then suggested "hiking" up Mt. Bonnell. It was a gorgeous day, and the top of the park was pretty crowded with many other people that had a similar idea. They walked around for a bit, and were sitting on the cliffside looking over the river when it began to look like it was going to rain. Just before it started he asked Priya if he she would be with him for the rest of their lives, and took out a beautiful ring! Priya was very surprised, to say the least, but she was even moreso when their good friend Kaustubh popped out of the bushes! It turned out that he and John had planned to have him take photos of the entire thing, and she had even almost noticed him several times before. The newly engaged couple and Kaustubh then journeyed down the mountain for celebratory Taco Deli (an Austin favorite).