How many met their SO at MU?

[cheebs09]

Another thread made me curious. How many of you met your Significant Other at MU? It seemed like a high percentage:

My wife is an alum, but we met a couple years after school.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

We met at MY what? 

My wife was my supervisees best friend.  She tagged along to a few work socials and we hit it off.

[MUDPT]

On O-Staff together.

[cheebs09]

We met at MY what? 

My wife was my supervisees best friend.  She tagged along to a few work socials and we hit it off.

Ugh. Damn autocorrect.

[mu_hilltopper]

Met after, but she was at MU two years behind me.

Funny, when we were dating, she told me about going on a MAP trip for Habitat for Humanity where she got to meet Jimmy Carter and take a pic with him.   

I had a MU friend who did the same, and completely remember her showing me the picture of her, Carter, and another girl. 

Sure enough, the other girl was my future wife.   We didn't meet at MU, but we kinda did.

[Galway Eagle]

Met at Phonation, she was two years younger than me.

[Goose]

While I met my wife the first time prior to attending MU, we started dating when she was going into her Jr. year. I must add that I always loved the fact the she was the Dean's daughter, unfortunately that connection did not help me graduate any sooner.

[BrewCity83]

While I met my wife the first time prior to attending MU, we started dating when she was going into her Jr. year. I must add that I always loved the fact the she was the Dean's daughter, unfortunately that connection did not help me graduate any sooner.

Did you have to deliver her back home to the Dean's home in a shopping cart after you got her drunk at a frat party?

[21Jumpstreet]

Met mine on 16th and Wells while running into a girl I dated at the time. They were friends and future roommates. When I visited the girl I was sort of dating at Schroeder, I flirted with my future wife who lived across the hall.

Incredibly, we met again at a wedding after my senior year (she was there for the bride, I for the groom), we of course had separate dates but ditched them to talk all night and fall in love. Needless to say the original girl was none to happy (I was definitely an immature ahole, even more than currently) and now roommates with my future wife, but she ended up being in our wedding several years later. Celebrating our 23rd anniversary this November. I know our story isn’t unique or special, but it sure is incredible how the universe conspired to bring us together.

[Lighthouse 84]

Mutual friends introduced us.  As my wife remembers it,  I was sitting on a barstool at the Gym. I'm afraid I'd been sitting on the barstool at the Gym too long for me to remember it.     One reason we were introduced was that we share the same birthdate. We ended up getting married on that day several years later and just celebrated our 33rd anniversary and each's 60th bday July 29.

[StillAWarrior]

Met mine on 16th and Wells...

I also met my wife on 16th and Wells. We both were involved in the earliest days of Midnight Run and were serving lunch out of a van in the vacant lot where the Annex is now.

[Goose]

21Jump

My wife was dating my best friend when I met her the first time. I told my sister the next day I met the girl I was going to marry someday and a random meeting at The Gym Bar three years changed my life. We ran into each other in the bar and became very serious in a matter of 7-10 days. It is amazing how things work out.

[Billy Hoyle]

met at my party at Campus Town. I was a senior, she was a freshman. We started talking, and it turned out we were from the same state, and our parents lived about 70 miles apart. She says it was love at first sight, it took me a little while to get over the 2.5 year age difference; at 21 that seemed like a lot. We stayed together despite her being at MU and me being in another city, then we got engaged a little over a year after she graduated. Married 18 years, together 25.

[dgies9156]

I met my wife the first day of Spanish class in January 1976,

She had a habit of coming to class on the first day dressed "well." Her smile was a killer and her eyes basically captured me within a day or so. She had the same major I did.

It took about a month for us to go out. She had to ask me to a dinner/dance sponsored by O'Donnell Hall. We had a great time and hit it off from the outset.

We dated all through Marquette and she followed me a year later to the city of my first job. She was graduated a year after I was.

We were married in 1980 and 42.25 years later, we're happy as ever! She was without a doubt the best thing that happened to me while at Marquette.

[MU82]

We worked together at the Tribune; I was a senior, she a junior. Went to a Brewers game with a few others right before the 1981-82 school year, ended up together forever.

Celebrated our 39th anniversary over the weekend with our kids and grandkids. Doesn't get any better than that!

We Are Marquette!

[21Jumpstreet]

This thread really is outstanding and brings back so many good memories and so many things to be thankful for. StillAWarrior and Goose, good stuff and amazing indeed.

I’m about to move my oldest son to Philly in a week for his freshman year in college, and these stories have definitely made me think about his next four years. What a time to be alive.

[LloydsLegs]

Just east of 16th and WI, during freshmen orientation. 

A group of us from McCormick 3rd floor were walking past future Mrs. Legs and her O'Donnell friends.  She "caught" one of my friends checking out the backside of one of her friends, we all started talking, and became friends.  We started dating October of sophomore year.

[Dr. Blackheart]

This thread really is outstanding and brings back so many good memories and so many things to be thankful for. StillAWarrior and Goose, good stuff and amazing indeed.

I’m about to move my oldest son to Philly in a week for his freshman year in college, and these stories have definitely made me think about his next four years. What a time to be alive.

Imagine the next generation of misplaced fates caused by attending Zoom classes back home in their parents' basements?

[21Jumpstreet]

Imagine the next generation of misplaced fates caused by attending Zoom classes back home in their parents' basements?

The universe will prevail!

[Billy Hoyle]

Imagine the next generation of misplaced fates caused by attending Zoom classes back home in their parents' basements?

I don’t know, those masks the kids were wearing was probably a turn on for some and led to some private chats.

[dgies9156]

The universe will prevail!

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

[Hards Alumni]

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

Why bring kids into a world that their grandparents have long ruined?

[Jay Bee]

No. Still waiting to experience my first kiss

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

Someone let grandpa near the computer again.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

I promise you, Gen Zers find a way. I unfortunately have a ton of job security

[dgies9156]

Someone let grandpa near the computer again.

Damn straight. LOL.

Lighten up all!

[MU82]

Maybe not. The world may be doomed to a land of Gen Zers who never hook up, never marry and, perhaps thankfully, never reproduce!

What?

[Lennys Tap]

Why bring kids into a world that their grandparents have long ruined?

Life has never been better or easier but you can never stop perpetual whiners.

[Lennys Tap]

No. Still waiting to experience my first kiss

Maybe Sultan can kiss your arse?

[real chili 83]

I met my wife the first day of Spanish class in January 1976,

She had a habit of coming to class on the first day dressed "well." Her smile was a killer and her eyes basically captured me within a day or so. She had the same major I did.

It took about a month for us to go out. She had to ask me to a dinner/dance sponsored by O'Donnell Hall. We had a great time and hit it off from the outset.

We dated all through Marquette and she followed me a year later to the city of my first job. She was graduated a year after I was.

We were married in 1980 and 42.25 years later, we're happy as ever! She was without a doubt the best thing that happened to me while at Marquette.

I suppose since you are a Real Chili virgin, this would be the best thing that ever happened to you while at Marquette.

[Hards Alumni]

Life has never been better or easier but you can never stop perpetual whiners.

I sincerely hope you don't actually think this.

You're a member of the silver spoon generation that has kicked the ladder out from beneath your successes.

Life has never been better and easier for you, but that's because you're an old boomer that got to experience America at the peak and now you're generation is doing it's collective best to destroy it. 

Thanks guys!

[4everwarriors]

Just the other way around, BH. We've worked for everything...no entitlement, hey?

[Hards Alumni]

Just the other way around, BH. We've worked for everything...no entitlement, hey?

nope.

[Goose]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

[Hards Alumni]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

100%

[Uncle Rico]

Hards

Are you fxxkin' serious?

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

[Hards Alumni]

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

Same.  I paid my entire way with loans, grants, and I worked every summer.  Finished paying back my loans a year or two ago.

[Uncle Rico]

Same.  I paid my entire way with loans, grants, and I worked every summer.  Finished paying back my loans a year or two ago.

I am looking forward to when I get older and can start calling all generations after mine entitled.  It’s such a lazy old person thing.  It’s not complicated to understand the goal of each generation should be to make it easier for the next generation.  That’s sort of the purpose, aina?

[Goose]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

[Pakuni]

"Now a lot of these cultural crimes I’ve been complaining about can be blamed on the baby-boomers. Something else I’m a little tired of hearing about, the baby-boomers. Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: “gimme-it it’s mine”! “give-me-that it’s mine”! These people were given everything. Everything was handed to them, and they took it all. Took it all. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. And they stayed loaded for twenty years, and had a free ride, but now they’re staring down the barrel of middle-age burn-out, and they don’t like it. They don’t like it so they’ve turned self-righteous, and they want to make things hard on younger people. They tell them to: “abstain” from sex. “Say no” to drugs. As for the rock-n-roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago, so they could buy pasta-machines, and “stair-masters”, and “soybean-futures”. “Soybean-futures”. You know something? They’re cold bloodless people. It’s in their slogans. It’s in their rhetoric. “No pain no gain”, “just do it”, “life is short play hard”, “sh-t happens deal with it”, “get a life”. These people went from “do your own thing” to “just say no”. They went from “love is all you need” to “whoever winds up with the most toys wins”. And they went from cocaine to rogaine. And you know something? They’re still counting grams, only now it’s fat grams. And the worst of it is, the rest of us have to watch these commercials on TV for Levi’s loose-fitting jeans, and fat-ass docker pants, because these degenerate yuppie-boomer-c*cksuckers couldn’t keep their hands off the croissants, and the häagen-dazs. And their big fat asses have spread all over and they have to wear fat-ass docker pants. F*ck these boomers."

- George Carlin

[Uncle Rico]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

Good!  That’s awesome and I’m sure Doc is among them.  Doesn’t mean those kids and grandkids are “entitled”.

[Hards Alumni]

Rico

If making it easier for the next generation, I know a handful of old guys on here that have accomplished goal. Now I am working on helping the third generation to have it easier than my kids.

I'd prefer we make it easier for everyone of a generation instead of just family members, personally.

[Goose]

I can only speak for my family, my kids have lived a very nice, easy life but never have I felt it was not appreciated to the highest level. I actually have told me adult kids (26-35 years old) they do not need to thank Mom and Dad for literally everything we still do for them. Two of my boys are my main golf buddies and they have never paid for a round when playing with me yet have never taken it for granted and thank me every single time. I lived a very nice life and believed paying it forward was how I wanted to live my life.

Over the past 25 years I have had a roller coaster of a life financially, but my kids left college debt free and have made great decisions since graduating. To be honest, seeing their Dad eat a little dirt was the best education they may have received. They saw their parents' sacrifice a ton to provide an education and life in general. Hopefully they have learned the lesson of paying it forward.

[Goose]

Hards

#1 I believe you do not have children and if that is the case, you really have no experience to comment on the topic.
#2 I have always believed you start at home and work out in helping people.
#3 Pretty big assumption that I do not want to help others. For the record, your assumption is off target.

[Billy Hoyle]

I am looking forward to when I get older and can start calling all generations after mine entitled.  It’s such a lazy old person thing.  It’s not complicated to understand the goal of each generation should be to make it easier for the next generation.  That’s sort of the purpose, aina?

I'm Gen X and working at a college have ample opportunity to call Gen Z kids "entitled" as they display it on a daily basis,

[MU82]

I love all the labeling of entire generations.

My wife and I are Boomers and I think we both worked pretty hard for decades. Neither of us had anything handed to us, and I don't think we could be called "takers" or "me-first" or bad for the planet or any of the other labels that get used to describe Boomers.

Our kids are in their mid-30s. That makes them, what, Millennials? We absolutely didn't spoil our kids -- they used to call us "too strict" -- but it was a goal of ours to put them through college and we did. Otherwise they were not what I'd call entitled or spoiled. They have worked their arses off as young adults, married great people, and now are doing a fine job raising their own kids. Most of the friends they went to high school with have grown up to be hard-working contributors to society. I hear the blanket criticism of Millennials, and it sounds so ignorant -- though no more or less ignorant than blanket criticism of Boomers.

So on this I'll take Hards' side AND Lenny's side. They're pretty much right about their own generations AND wrong about others.

Generalizations and labels are counterproductive and shallow.

And of course, we're having this discussion in what was looking like a fun thread about whether or not we met our spouses at Marquette. Jeesh.

[Lennys Tap]

I’m not a boomer.  My parents were and I was raised in a lower income house as part of Gen X.  I had no entitlement.  Paid my way through college by working 30-35 hours a week and paying back student loans.  If that’s entitlement, then I’d ask Doc if he’s fxxkin’ serious if he thinks those that came after boomers are entitled

Rico

Your story is commendable and not an uncommon one for yours or any other generation. People who want to lump individuals into some neat, packaged narrative based on their birth date should know better.

That doesn’t mean that people don’t benefit generationally. The world my generation inherited was more just and afforded us more opportunity than my parent’s had. Did that result in some being entitled or ungrateful? Sure. The same is true for yours.

[MUBurrow]

There's a lot of conflation going on here between defining the "next generation" as members of one's family vs the country at large.  Statistically, millenials are on pace to be the first generation to be worse off than their parents.  As of a 2013 NYT article, "The average net worth of someone 29 to 37 has fallen 21 percent since 1983; the average net worth of someone 56 to 64 has more than doubled."

But it stands to reason that the descendants of graduates of a private college would buck that trend.  If the generational criticism is that the boomers consolidated their wealth at the expense of the next generation and thereby created greater levels of wealth inequality, then the millenial descendants of the wealthier and more educated boomers would actually be more priviledged compared to their peers than was the case for their parents.  Its a positive feedback loop.

[real chili 83]

There is one accurate generalization.

ND sucks.

[dgies9156]

There's a lot of conflation going on here between defining the "next generation" as members of one's family vs the country at large.  Statistically, millenials are on pace to be the first generation to be worse off than their parents.  As of a 2013 NYT article, "The average net worth of someone 29 to 37 has fallen 21 percent since 1983; the average net worth of someone 56 to 64 has more than doubled."

Nonsense!

The same comment was made about us boomers during the 1970s and 1980s.

There are three variables that govern intergenerational wealth in this country. The first is the pace of technological change. We boomers benefitted from the technology age that began in the 1980s and accelerated dramatically in the 1990s. The second is the way the government manages the economy. Quite simply, does the policies of the monetary agencies and the fiscal policies of the government promote growth? Thirdly is individual initiative. How driven are you to succeed and what are you willing to give up on the short-run to assure your life is a good one.

We boomers benefitted from the tech revolution. To suggest we need to "get out of the way," as some millennials have suggested, is garbage. Find your way, man! You can do it!

That said, those of us who married Marquette spouses are especially well-equipped to benefit. Our spouses are grounded in real-world reality, are well-educated, thoughtful and, most of all, smart. In my case, she's beautiful too!

 

[dgies9156]

I can only speak for my family, my kids have lived a very nice, easy life but never have I felt it was not appreciated to the highest level. I actually have told me adult kids (26-35 years old) they do not need to thank Mom and Dad for literally everything we still do for them. Two of my boys are my main golf buddies and they have never paid for a round when playing with me yet have never taken it for granted and thank me every single time. I lived a very nice life and believed paying it forward was how I wanted to live my life.

Over the past 25 years I have had a roller coaster of a life financially, but my kids left college debt free and have made great decisions since graduating. To be honest, seeing their Dad eat a little dirt was the best education they may have received. They saw their parents' sacrifice a ton to provide an education and life in general. Hopefully they have learned the lesson of paying it forward.

Ditto.

My children were orphans. The first years of their lives were spent in squalor few Americans have ever seen. So, if I spoil them, so be it. I don't expect them to thank me. I expect them to pay it forward, as you do, and to never forget from where they came. I occasionally remind them they were chosen for something -- only God knows what that is -- and they should be open to that calling, whatever it is and whenever it surfaces.

My parents were like us and like Goose -- they made sure we had a Marquette education (four of the six of us had one). All Dad and Mom wanted was to make sure someone down the line had the same opportunities we did. Our children have and we've responded to more calls than I can count to give to education.                                                                                                                                                                             

[🏀]

Boomers keep booming. We will never fully grasp their impact.