Amanda Roberts ’22 and Brendan Mercuri ’22

My roommates and I were decorating our dorm at Rosen. We were all in the window hanging decals when a group of guys in the pool made eye contact with the four girls in the window. Of course, we waved at them! We all wanted to meet people with it being all of our first years at Rosen. One of the pool boys slid us a note with his name. The two single girls at the time (me and Alexa) decided we would slide him a note back with our Snapchats. For the entirety of 2020 all Brendan and I ever did was Snapchat a few times asking about class stuff. I ended up meeting a girl, Melene, who was really good friends with Brendan. Over summer 2021, Melene and I moved in together when my roommates went home. Brendan was over all the time and I would see him in passing on my way to work at SeaWorld. Melene and I started to go out more and Brendan would always tag along. I moved back in with my original roommates during fall of 2021 when they came back up! We moved into room 402 and Brendan stayed in his same room 403. He would always invite me any time he had plans to go to Disney and we started talking more and more. He made his first move on me during HHN in 2021. We started hanging out whenever we were both off work and would stay up until 4am talking about whatever we wanted. After months of hanging out, he asked me on January 20, 2022 to be his girlfriend. It was extremely romantic in his car in the Rosen parking lot. We just hit one year and went on our first trip together to see a concert in NYC. Now, we’re both pursuing our masters degrees in Event Leadership at Rosen. We’re best friends, classmates, and theme park junkies all in one. I still have his note to this day and don’t ever plan on throwing it out.