<p>I hope Jessie doesn't mind me posting this, but I found out yesterday that she and her boyfriend, a fellow MIT alum, are now engaged!</p>
<p>I hope she might share the story of the proposal, as it's very MIT. :)</p>
<p>Congratulations again, Jessie!</p>
<p>oooh! Jessie, please do tell!</p>
<p>ooooh :] Congratulations!</p>
<p>does very MIT mean very nerd-pride-ish? I love nerd-pride-ish stories. :] telllll?</p>
<p>Congratulations Jessie! I hope you guys are very happy!!</p>
<p>Congratulations – would be interested to hear the story too :D</p>
<p>Oh man, it’s a very nerdy story. (I obviously mean that as a compliment!)</p>
<p>And Mollie, just because YOUR engagement was announced on the internet before you told your parents doesn’t mean you should do the same to others. =P (kidding! I love you, Mollie!)</p>
<p>Congrats, Jessie!</p>
<p>Wow, congrats! I can’t wait to hear the story. :)</p>
<p>Hey, the internet is the new town square. :D</p>
<p>And I waited, like, a day after I found out. That’s restraint for me! I like to brag about people I like.</p>
<p>Funny how CC is full of many self-absorbed high schoolers, but there are apparently very different people around these parts. Still curious here, never heard the story of a special MIT wedding!</p>
<p>Hopefully she’s out celebrating instead of stalking CC :)</p>
<p>wow–this is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!</p>
<p>I hope Jessie doesn’t get mad that you’ve told everyone XD</p>
<p>All right, fine, I will post the link. Given the way that this story has taken off, I’m slightly terrified that posting it here will mean that I get friended by a hundred insane prefrosh, plus all of their friends. 
So I will warn you up front, unless I actually know you, I’m not likely to friend you back. ;)</p>
<p>[jessiehl:</a> Jessie’s Great Adventure](<a href=“Error”>Error)</p>
<p>Edited to add: Also, Mollie, he’s not an MIT alum. He started hanging out with MIT people while working in a Harvard lab, and games and socializes with the MIT crowd.</p>
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<p>With LJ accounts? (Seems unlikely, I dunno. I don’t have one, for one, and I don’t know anybody that does.)</p>
<p>That was an awesome way to get engaged!</p>
<p>Awesome story! Congrats!!</p>
<p>Congrats! Hopefully you two have many happy years ahead of you; best wishes =)</p>
<p>I am very impressed. Are you sure you won’t friend me back if I friend you, not a prefrosh here. :D</p>
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<li><p>That’s really wonderful. Congratulations.</p></li>
<li><p>If this story is in any way typical, MIT students (and those who game and hang out with them) are from Mars, and I’m from Venus. I’m pretty certain that I never proposed to my wife. We simply talked periodically over several years, first about our attitudes toward marriage, in general and as applied to us (neither of us cared a lot, but we both thought it would matter to our families and would be respectful of them, and was probably a good idea if we had children), and that morphed over time into a shared assumption that we would get married when the time was right, and then into discussions of how the time was probably right next summer, before she had to go back to school and I had to start a new job. At one point near the start of that last phase I wanted to get her a ring, but neither of us liked the diamond solitaire kind of ring. I asked a jeweler my family knew to make one with a band of small diamonds and sapphires, and I had to ask my wife for her ring size, so she knew about it. “Is this like an engagement ring?” “I guess, yeah, that’s the idea.” “I don’t want an engagement ring. I don’t want to walk around with jewelry on my hand.” “Don’t worry, it’ll look OK. You don’t have to wear it if you don’t want to.”</p></li>
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Oh, sorry – I think I had just always assumed he was an alum because of the second part of your sentence.</p>