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This week we’re sharing the most romantic things that have ever happened to us! Happy early Valentine’s Day!
So…tell us…what’s the most swoon-worthy thing that anyone has ever done for you?
During my senior year of high school, my crush asked me to prom by putting a note in the book I was reading. Doesn’t sound romantic? I live two hours away from him and he had a friend put it in the book I was reading at Barnes and Noble, orchestrating my arrival/opening of the book!
- Alexandra Patterson, Administrative Intern, Kenyon College
My boyfriend Alex flew to Paris with me one week after we started dating. He told me he loved me on top of the Eiffel Tower. It was ridiculously romantic. Two years later we’re still madly in love!
- Windsor Hanger, Co-Founder, Publisher & President, Harvard (alum)
It’s very nerdy-romantic :) For Christmas 2009, my boyfriend got me a nice metal filing cabinet. I was so excited because I have an insane need to organize my things and my plastic one was falling apart. I was so happy that I didn’t bother to look inside where more gifts were waiting — a journalism t-shirt, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and manual plus 12 boxes of specially ordered Coco-Wheats because nobody in the south seems to sell them. The gifts themselves were awesome but even more so because it showed how much he listened to me and understood my needs and interests.
- Daylina Miller, Campus Correspondent, University of Florida
Back when we were dating, my fiancé accompanied my sister and I to the mall while we got our parents a present. My sister and I wandered to the Coach store and promptly picked out everything we wanted (basically everything) while he lingered behind. I am not a shoe person, I am definitely a purse person; I am obsessed. Anyways we left and in the middle of the mall he pulled me back and said, “We need to go back.” I did not object to this. We went back to the store where he turned to me and said “I love you. Merry Christmas. Pick one.” Instantly I felt slightly nauseous because I knew the damage I could do. He reassured me he had done his research on prices and I could get anything. My sister drove us home while I kissed him and said “ILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOU” the whole ride home.
- Ashley Henninger, Design Associate, University of Missouri
I once was dating a guy who lived back down South who surprised me by flying up one day. He got my friends to let him into my dorm room, so he was there when I came back from class. Then he took me out to dinner and a play that I had been dying to go to.
- Krista Evans, Campus Correspondent, Simmons College
My boyfriend of over 7 years — now my fiancé — asked me out with a dozen red and white roses in high school. He sent them to me while in drama class knowing that we had next hour together and that he would have an answer during that period. The card with the roses red “Will you go out with me? Love, Kyle”. He said that he was shaking while writing on the card so much that he had to get a new card — twice. So cute. I still have that card.
- Andrea Opalewski, Branch Manager, Western Michigan University
My boyfriend knows that I’m a sports fanatic, and he knows that I’m a huge Michigan State basketball fan since my dad went to school there. I’d never been to one of their games, and it had been a dream of mine to go. My boyfriend surprised me with tickets to their game and dubbed the weekend my “birthday weekend.” He sacrificed sleep (we woke up at 5 a.m.!) and mileage (5 hours there and back) to take me to their game against our university. It was truly the thought that counted behind this gift…no guy had ever planned something like that for me! It was better than any jewelry gift because it was thoughtful and something we could both share and enjoy together.
- Ngozi Ekeledo, Contributing Writer, Northwestern University
I was dating my current boyfriend for just a few months and we were (and still are) doing the long-distance thing. I had a long weekend because some classes got canceled and I wanted to come home. My parents didn’t have time to drive 4 hours to get me and 4 hours home. So after my boyfriend got off the train at 6 pm at night, he made his way to Iowa. He arrived around 11 p.m., we grabbed some food and went back home. He woke up at 545 am the next morning and went to work the next morning. On the way home I thanked him over and over. Later in our car ride, and he said, “I think when you are in love, you make sacrifices. Consider this a sacrifice.” I knew at that moment I didn’t just love him — I was in love with him.
- Nicole Lumbreras, Campus Correspondent, University of Iowa
Valentine’s Day was on a Sunday, and my boyfriend was away with his family for the entire weekend. He convinced his family last minute to drive back late Saturday night. When I got to his house on Sunday afternoon, he took me into his basement where the entire room was decorated with Valentine’s Day gifts. There were balloons, stuffed animals, candy, etc. He had gone with his family to a 24-hour store at two in the morning the night before. I had not been expecting anything, because he had been away and our plans were so last minute. The fact that he went out of his way to make sure that we spent Valentine’s Day together and beyond that, fill an entire room with Valentine’s Day presents for me, was very romantic.
- Erica Petri, Campus Correspondent, Emory University
In high school I had to be up by 7 a.m. and I live in an apartment. One morning I headed down to my garage to get the car and my boyfriend at the time woke up before seven and gave the garage guy a Starbucks coffee to give it to me so I would have it on the way to school. It was very thoughtful.
- Yael Schusterman, Campus Correspondent, Arizona