Colonial Couple Stories

Zach and I met during my sophomore year, his junior year at RMU. Zach was a manufacturing engineering major and I was a clinical psychology major. We had the same business communications course with Dr. Rose-Buzila, and we may have never crossed paths…

It was 2006 Super Saturday. If you know what that was, then you are as old as we are! I was talking with friends when Jon came up and said hi. That was it. Fast forward an entire year and on Super Saturday (again) we ended up hanging out with friends…

Matt and Tori met for the first time at the RMU Sentry Media Retreat before the 2015 fall semester began. At the time, Matt was the Sentry’s chief graphic designer and Tori was an incoming freshman media arts major with a concentration in graphic…

Alek and I met our sophomore year. We had completely different majors, so we never had classes together or ever had a chance of meeting. I was a sister of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority and he was on the football team. Our mutual friend, a sorority…

I met my husband Rich in 1999 at a club in the Strip District while attending RMU. He was in the Air Force and stationed overseas in England at the time. We kept in touch for a year through email. He was then restationed in Atlanta, came to see me,…

We met through mutual friends in the cafeteria freshman year, and over the next two years we just kept running into each other — easy to do on a small campus when we were both on sports teams. Senior year everything changed when we locked eyes across…

Ryan and I were both student-athletes. He played football and I ran track. We met in 2011 during our freshman year in Adams Hall. We instantly became best friends. We shared a friend group and started dating shortly after the semester started, and we…

Although Thomas and Adrianna fell in love when working on their undergrad at another university, their love and education goals continued to grow strong at RMU, where they enrolled together for the master’s in organizational leadership program. They…

Zach and Kiera met in their final semester of senior year through a mutual friend at Zach's birthday get-together in Concord Hall. After spending time together, it was clear there was a spark despite neither of them wanting to admit it to one another…

Jessica and Sean first met near the end of freshman year in Ross Hall. It was the hangout spot for Sean and his friends and the first place he and Jess laid eyes on each other. One of Sean's buddies was dating one of Jess's friends at the time. After…

“Natasha and I met during a fire drill during my senior year of college. She was visiting some friends in Concord Hall, and the fire alarm went off. We ran into each other due to mutual friends. She recognized me as the ‘Chick-fil-A’ guy. We soon went…

“Zach and I met in 2017 in our Business Communication course. We started talking and he asked me on a first date to have lunch in the Yorktown cafe. Our second was bowling at the island! We have been together since November 2017 and got engaged in…

“Brian and I met as freshmen, fall of 2007, at an honors program orientation in the chapel at RMU. Our director had us play an icebreaker game where you say your name and a word that describes you that starts with the same letter as your first name. I…

“Ed and Chelsey met freshman year in Intro to Foundations and started dating sophomore year while working at RMU-TV on Colonial Sports Center. Both were TV/video media arts majors. They got married at Rogal Chapel on campus in October of 2014 and…

“Adam and I met through a mutual friend named Tony during my freshman year. Adam and Tony played ice hockey together for RMU. Adam and I first met outside of Hale Center between classes by the dogwood tree (we now refer to this as "our tree"). One day…

“Jeremy and Darlene met each other at a summer camp for amputees when they were in grade school. One summer, everything changed and the two started dating long distance. Jeremy graduated from H.S. a year before Darlene and started his journey at RMU.…

"Nick and I met in 2012, when Nick was a freshman at RMU and I was finishing up my senior year of high school. We met while both working at a local nursing home; Nick was a nursing assistant and I was a receptionist. It was truly love at first sight!…

“We met during our first semester of our freshman year. We were sitting in Sociology class in Hale when a stink bug was crawling up my chair. I couldn’t focus on anything but that stink bug! Erik, a complete stranger to me, went to Starbucks and…

"My wife Kim and I met at RMC. We started out as friends and one day went to Mt. Washington. Ice cream and the view led to an amazing relationship. We continued to date for years and shared many RMC events, like Fight Night, Super Saturday, and many…

Paige says: “I first met Justin during orientation weekend freshman year. That afternoon we had two options: bowling or mini golf. The group I was with decided we wanted to go bowling first, so that's what we did! After a game or…

“Josh and I met in the fall of 1997 in my dorm (Hamilton), but we didn’t start dating until the spring of 1998. I was going to visit friends in G tower but saw a friend from grade school in F1. I stopped to hang out and saw Josh lived there. We…

“Dale and I met during the honors freshmen orientation during an icebreaker game. He learned I also knew how to speak German and, much to my embarrassment, began loudly talking in the language at me. His loud voice carried in the shrinking room and I…

“Both cyber security majors, we had a class together during the spring of our junior year and had mutual friends. After getting to know each other more, and many Thursdays at Jailhouse Saloon, we started dating in the fall of senior year and got…

“We met in 2009, only one month into freshman year, and the rest is history! He had a class with my roommate and she introduced us and it turned out that he grew up 10 minutes from me and we went to neighboring school districts and knew a lot of the…

“I went to college single and with no plans of getting a boyfriend. Shortly after starting school, my roommate started dating a guy. His roommate was named Dan, and Dan had a car, so he drove them around to the store and to parties, and I would often…

“Kyla and I met through our time in RMU fraternity and sorority life. I knew her sorority ‘big’ and was close friends with her. I certainly needed her to put in a good word for me — Kyla actually friend-zoned me before really getting to know me! Our…

We met during my sophomore year at Norwin High School (he was a junior). Adam would attend all of my field hockey games with some of his friends, all dressed in kilts (field hockey staple) and blue & gold (Norwin HS colors). After one of my games…

While we did not meet at RMU, we went to the same high school and eventually went to RMU at the same time. We met our best friends while on campus and even had an RMU-filled wedding. Both members of Greek life on campus, we have built a lasting…

Alina and I have been together since 8th grade. We attended high school together and chose to attend RMU together. Alina majored in biomedical/mechanical engineering and I studied nuclear medicine technology. We both were active members of the RMU…

Bill and I met when RMU was still RMC and had their Downtown location. In between classes we’d hang out in a common area downstairs. For months we just saw each other on campus. So we finally decided to meet up at an RMC dance at the Sheraton in…

Fall semester 1972 at the Pittsburgh branch, the famed "eight-story campus"! Walked into Charlie Cubelic's American History class and noticed this cute blond young lady sitting two seats over from me. A few weeks later, I asked her for a date, and she…

Holly and I met our freshman year at RMU. Since graduation we recently got engaged in December 2019. We are forever thankful that RMU brought us together. Let's go Bobby Mo!

We met the first day of school freshman year. We were both walking to class and started talking only to realize we were going to the same class. We were great friends for the first year and a half and then started dating our sophomore year. We married…

Our story began when I was a freshman and Drew was a senior. You know when you meet someone, and you just can't stop picturing the rest of your life with them, and you have to talk yourself down because it had only been about an hour since you met? I…

Becky came to RMU from Arizona in 2005 for her freshman year. She was checking in early for Band Camp and didn’t know anyone at RMU yet. She was in Residence Life getting her keys and in walked Dan. He was the very first person she met at RMU.

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We originally met in high school. He was the cute guy in the hallways that always smiled and said hi to me. A couple of years after graduation, we both worked for the same clothing company in the mall. We became friends on Facebook. I finally got the…

My husband and I started dating in high school. He was a senior and I was a junior. He went off to RMC and we dated even though we were apart. When I graduated, I of course followed him to RMC. We dated our entire time in college. We got engaged Dave'…

When I walked into the cafeteria one day, he said he looked up and saw me and it was love at first sight. We started off as friends but started dating a short time later. We are coming up on 24 years.

Kearsten and Drew started dating in January 2015 when she was a freshman and he was a sophomore. The two instantly connected over their love for Romo’s “lock n’ load” sandwiches. Drew was an offensive lineman for the football team and Kearsten was…

Ed and Chelsey met freshman year in Intro to Foundations and started dating sophomore year while working at RMU-TV on Colonial Sports Center. Both were TV/video media arts majors. They got married at Rogal Chapel on campus in October of 2014 and moved…

Ian and I have been friends since high school, and we really got closer at RMU. We have been dating the past three years. We used to go to local restaurants on University Boulevard after class. RMU definitely prepared us for life. We are both working…

We met my freshmen year the first day of football camp, James as a player and me as a member of the staff. We instantly connected, realizing we grew up in nearby areas and shared some of the same friends! Over the next four years our friendship grew.…

James is from Maryland and I’m from Scranton, and we met the year I graduated. We were shocked that on such a small campus, we never had run into one another. James played lacrosse and I ran track and cross country, and apparently those worlds don’t…

We met while in the same accounting class. Jamie majored in IT and I majored in communications advertising. We got married in 2009. In 2013 we opened Topping Town frozen yogurt across the street in Moon Plaza and worked with RMU students in…

When I made the decision to transfer to Robert Morris College, I had no idea that I was going there to meet my wife. The brochures did not have her photo, a description of her, or even her awesome smile luring me to Moon Township. I was a naive…

Although we didn't meet in college, Robert Morris was where we nurtured our relationship. When money was scarce, Joe decided to drop out of college and get a job. But Joanne didn't want that to be the end of the story and continually hinted that he…

They locked eyes for the first time in the Washington parking lot at Homecoming 2012. Later on, at a Snowball dance, Justin walked Megan back to her dorm from. They began talking off and on, passing each other during runs around the campus. Finally,…

Kelley Bittner Hartzfeld '16 and Jacob Hartzfeld '16 met during their senior year while setting up their Senior Show art displays before graduation. They were both media arts majors -- Kelley in photography and Jacob in TV/video. They began dating…

Mark and Brenda met when Brenda was a sophomore and Mark was a freshman. They started dating a year later after a Halloween mixer between Brenda’s Zeta Tau Alpha and Mark’s Phi Delta Theta.

They got married in 2015 surrounded by many friends…

Sophomore year I lived in Washington Tower A5 with my softball teammates, and Mike lived in A3 with his football teammates. I returned back from class and everyone was telling me our GA’s cousin lived below us, so we all went to check this guy out. It…

Rich and I did not meet at RMU. We actually met at a New Year’s Eve party in 1983. Rich was a full-time student at RMU and I was working full time at Mellon Bank in downtown Pittsburgh. I would attend events at RMU with Rich and type papers for him as…

Robert was on the men's track and field team and I was on the women's rowing team while at RMU. We met several times through mutual track team friends and at other campus sporting events. We officially met each other again at the Homecoming dance…

We met at a party at my sorority, where all the sisters had a big celebration for all the new members. One of my best friends at the time was the president of the sorority and was a sweetheart to a fraternity. She had shown some of her closest friends…

My late father-in-law attended the then Pittsburgh School of Accountancy which became Robert Morris Junior College. I attended Robert Morris Junior College majoring in accounting, later transferring to Gannon. My wife. who I met post-Robert Morris…

Our love story started in the old cafeteria the winter of 1977. I walked there every day in the biting cold after my shorthand and typing class in the library. Tom was at the Delta Tau Delta table which was positioned right at the top of the stairs so…

"Robert Morris has been a big part of me and my wife's relationship. We started dating in middle school and she was one grade ahead of me. I knew she was the one but we needed to grow together in life. Stephanie choose to enter the nursing program at…