Sean

Major?
Music and Economics, Pre-med

Sexual Orientation?
Straight

What extracurriculars do you participate in?
Club Tennis, Water-ski and Wakeboarding team, Basketball

What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
Physically fit and attractive, intelligent, and talkative.

Do you smoke? Do you drink? Do you work out? Do you attend religious services? Are you passionate about politics?
I don’t smoke or attend religious services and I do drink and work out. I am apathetic about politics.

How would you describe your race/ethnicity? Do you have an ethnicity preference?
I am Asian. I have no strong ethnicity preferences, maybe a little for Caucasians and Asians.

What are your favorite TV shows?
House, Prison Break, South Park, Scrubs, Chapelle’s Show, Burn Notice, Fringe, Lie to Me

What music do you like (genres and bands)?
Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydyn, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, ACDC, Dream Theater, Ozzy Osbourne, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yngwie, Malmsteen, Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Van Halen, Pantera, Dragonforce, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Andrea Bocelli, Samuel Ramey, The Everly Brothers, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan

What’s your favorite food/favorite restaurant in Charlottesville?
Lemongrass, I pretty much like all restaurants.
What are your favorite books and authors?

Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, and Orson Scott Card books

What makes you a good catch?
Funny, smart, athletic, love to have fun.

What would your theme song be?
Theme song to get me pumped up – Welcome to the Jungle

What hobbies/interests would you like to share with your date? What ways would you like them to differ from you?
Music/sports I would like to share with my date. I would like them to have other hobbies and interests so that I can try something new.

What are deal breakers?
Overweight

If you could have any superpower what would it be?
Fly

Are you outgoing or shy?
In-between

Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Doing my residency as a doctor.

Describe yourself in one sentence.
I love trying different things and living life to its fullest.

Archie

Major?
Aerospace engineering

Sexual Orientation?
Straight

What extracurriculars do you participate in?
I play tennis, fly RC planes. Other than that, I am executive member of professional societies like AIAA and ASME. I love planes and I hope to get a private pilot license soon.

What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
Has to be taller than 5’6”, is honest, open-minded, polite, good manners, down-to-earth, funny and possibly wear glasses.

Do you smoke? Do you drink? Do you work out? Do you attend religious services? Are you passionate about politics?
I don’t smoke. I do drink. I also work out. I’m passionate about certain topics in politics, but I’m open-minded. I wouldn’t judge people on what party they belong to. I’m religious enough, but again, I’m open-minded and feel that everyone has their own way of thinking and have their own opinions. Different opinions do not bother me or offend me.

How would you describe your race/ethnicity? Do you have an ethnicity preference?
I do not have any ethnicity preference. I’m Indian.

What are your favorite TV shows?
I like watching Scrubs, South Park, Family Guy, Greek, Project Runway, Sex and the City.

What music do you like (genres and bands)?
I like Rock and Metal. Some of my favorite bands are Metallica, DragonForce, Guns N’ Roses, Green Day.

What’s your favorite food/favorite restaurant in Charlottesville?
I like Café Europa, Basil, Lemongrass, Mas Tapas.

What are your favorite books and authors?
I like Harry Potter, Legend of the Seeker series, Heart of Darkness. Some of my favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Nora Roberts.

What makes you a good catch?
Well, I have fins and I get baited easily?! Just kidding…I feel I’m a fun person to hang out with, I’m open-minded, honest, not high-maintenance, and can hold my own when in trouble.

What would your theme song be?
Born to be Wild

What hobbies/interests would you like to share with your date? What ways would you like them to differ from you?
Has to be adventurous, likes tennis or is willing to learn to play tennis.

What are deal breakers?
Men who have bad manners or are sexist.

If you could have any superpower what would it be?
Oh, I’d definitely want to be able to fly  (that way, I wouldn’t need a pilot’s license which is very expensive)

Are you outgoing or shy?
Outgoing

Where do you see yourself in ten years?
With a great job, married and have couple papers published in the aerospace industry.

Describe yourself in one sentence.
I’m fun loving and adventurous.

The Date

Archie: I just wanted to see how a blind date worked. I’ve never been on one before and it was one of those things I wanted to do before I graduated. I was wondering who it was, of course. The idea was kind of exciting and adventurous — it could be anyone that I kind of knew. I was excited.

Sean: I guess I was thinking, “I wonder how this will go and who I’m going to meet.” I was wondering how you were going to match us up because it was based on our responses to the survey, so I was wondering about the type of person.

Archie: We met at Cohn’s on the Corner and before, I was sitting there, waiting for him to show up and there was this kind of older looking dude sitting there. He asked me for a cigarette and I was like, “Oh no, what if it’s him!” So when Sean showed up I was relieved that it wasn’t the old guy. He seemed [like a] very causal, laid-back, chill sort of dude.

Sean: She was the only person in front of the store so I kind of figured it was her. Then we decided where to go for the meal and we decided on Lemongrass. I suggested it and we both agreed on it.

Archie: He was very comfortable to talk to. Friendly, we just [talked about] what year was I, what year was he. He told me he was a Music/Economics major and I asked him if he was composing anything. I told him I was an Aerospace Engineer. We just talked about majors and you know, stuff we did.

Sean: I mean, she was nice. She was pretty interesting to talk to. We talked about the usual stuff … what year and what are you studying and what do you like to do outside of classes and stuff. I found out that she practices Hinduism and she does prayer every night and she speaks seven different Indian language variations. I’m in an Eastern Religion class right now and we just learned about Hinduism.

Archie: The conversation was good because we knew a lot of the same people. He’s on the Club Tennis team and I pretty much know everyone on the team except for him which is ironic. We had a lot to talk about. The conversation really flowed. We talked about some tennis celebrities and their breakdowns. He told me he wakeboards. We talked about what we do and stuff outside of school.

Sean: Then we ordered, and I chose, I think it was the spicy chicken and I had it at a level 9 of spiciness. It was pretty spicy, but not too spicy. She got vegetable tofu with a spice level of 5. She’s vegetarian.

Archie: The entire time I was expecting him to break down. He handled it pretty well. I’m Indian and I’m used to spicy, but 9 is too much. Apparently, he did this Wild Wings challenge where you eat the spiciest wings in 12 minutes and he finished that, so … I had a new level of respect for him.

Sean: We had a little bit in common, not too much though. I play Club Tennis and I play piano, guitar. I’m a music major; I talked about the different performances I’m involved in. She did music in high school but wasn’t too involved at the moment. But I guess we had similar backgrounds. We were from foreign countries and spoke different languages. She played tennis but she doesn’t play competitively or anything. She plays for fun.

Archie: We did talk about music. He plays piano and listens to opera and the closest thing to opera I knew was “Time to Say Goodbye” by Sarah Brightman. He told me he went to the Metallica concert, which is pretty neat because I love metal music.

Sean: There weren’t really any dull moments. There were breaks and stuff when we decided what we wanted to order but otherwise there was always something to talk about. We left Lemongrass and we walked back to Cohn’s and we split after that.

Archie: I had to work at the Robertson Media Center so I gave him a hug and then he went his way and I went my way.

Sean: It was average. Let’s see … I guess I would give it right in the middle, a 5.

Archie: I would give it a 7. The conversation was good, the food was really good. We had things to talk about, things in common. It just wasn’t a 10. But at least he didn’t forget his wallet.

Archie and Sean assume they will run into each other some time in the future but as of now have no definite plans.