It all goes back to Fall 2008. Jameson was one of the very first people I met freshman year at Penn State. I was a young 18 year old girl all the way from Atlanta. He was a "townie" who grew up only 20 minutes away from campus. Like many college freshman do we met through mutual friends. A girl on my floor was dating his roommate. So naturally one day we all got together to go to the dining hall for lunch. Afterwards a group of us went back to the dorm and Jameson ended up hanging out with my roommate and I while watching a football game. Here is all I remember about the first time we all hung out:
1. I impressed him with my football knowledge. We were watching Clemson play and as he says "I knew a lot about the game for a girl."
2. I could not pronounce his last name to save my life. To my defense Lietzke is pretty challenging. Who would have guessed 5 years later it would become my last name.
3. He was also majoring in Engineering. He was Mechanical. I was Industrial.
Fast forward a couple of weeks and my roommate and Jameson start hanging out more and more often.
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| Fall 2008. Freshman Year. Our first picture together. |
Low and behold my roommate and Jameson start dating so we all hung out quite a bit. We also had a couple of similar classes so every so often we would compare Chemistry notes. But for the greater part of freshman year he was just my roommates boyfriend. And then after they broke up a couple months later he was then just my roommates ex-boyfriend.
Fast forward to Sophomore year and I returned to campus in the Fall of 2009 and find Jameson and I have a couple of classes together. As I walked into Computer Science on the first day of class I recognize the familiar face so we sat together with some mutual friends. Our CS lab was right before lunch every Tuesday and Thursday so we started going to the dining hall together after class those days. We would eat, watch SportsCenter, talk about class and daily happenings. Sometimes his roommate or other people would meet us too. To kill time I would head to his dorm on west campus (I lived in South campus) and we would hang out with his roommate before our next class and watch episodes of The Office. Oh the joys of college, the free time was glorious!
We continued hanging out and studying together. I carried his butt through Computer Science and he was the sole reason I passed Physics II. We ended the semester as really close friends but at the end of December I left Penn State and transferred to Georgia Tech to finish my degree closer to home.
Some Fun Facts:
1. The whole time I was at Penn State I had a boyfriend back home.
2. Jameson was the last person I said goodbye to when leaving PSU. I held it together pretty good up until he stopped by the hotel I was staying at with my parents to say goodbye. After that I just lost it.
3. Georgia Tech and Penn State are over 700 miles apart
Then comes Fall 2010 (Junior year of college). Jameson and I continued to stay in touch. (I even saw him on a trip up to State College that summer while I was visiting a close girlfriend). We texted back and forth every now and then and were still up to date on each others lives. That Fall,
after a lot of soul searching and many tears I ended the 2 year relationship I had with my boyfriend from home. I distinctly remember texting Jameson after we broke up to tell him the news. I wasn't quite sure what his reaction would be but I remember having a huge desire to let him know.
When you talked to Jameson about this moment he will tell you that his first thoughts when he read that text were "Oh boy. Here we go!" --- Underlying our friendship the entire time was a strong compatibility and unspoken attraction. It was never discussed or acted upon since I was dating someone else at the time. But I think we both knew when I sent him that text that "our" time to figure things out was about it begin.
Spoiler Alert: Things worked out pretty well!!
Up Next: Our long distance dating adventures
Some Fun Facts:
1. The whole time I was at Penn State I had a boyfriend back home.
2. Jameson was the last person I said goodbye to when leaving PSU. I held it together pretty good up until he stopped by the hotel I was staying at with my parents to say goodbye. After that I just lost it.
3. Georgia Tech and Penn State are over 700 miles apart
Then comes Fall 2010 (Junior year of college). Jameson and I continued to stay in touch. (I even saw him on a trip up to State College that summer while I was visiting a close girlfriend). We texted back and forth every now and then and were still up to date on each others lives. That Fall,
after a lot of soul searching and many tears I ended the 2 year relationship I had with my boyfriend from home. I distinctly remember texting Jameson after we broke up to tell him the news. I wasn't quite sure what his reaction would be but I remember having a huge desire to let him know.
When you talked to Jameson about this moment he will tell you that his first thoughts when he read that text were "Oh boy. Here we go!" --- Underlying our friendship the entire time was a strong compatibility and unspoken attraction. It was never discussed or acted upon since I was dating someone else at the time. But I think we both knew when I sent him that text that "our" time to figure things out was about it begin.
Spoiler Alert: Things worked out pretty well!!
Up Next: Our long distance dating adventures
I remember so much of this!! Well, hearing about so much of this anyways :)
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