After the date... Lauryn

After her date with Vann, Hagan described the evening as “one of the best dinner conversations I’ve ever had.”

The pair talked about “pretty much everything there is to talk about,” Hagan said, and they discovered they have a lot in common.

“I feel like we had similar personalities,” she said. “The conversation was never awkward for the entire time. We just shifted from topic to topic.”

Hagan and Vann discussed everything from music to traveling to career aspirations to hometowns.

They discovered a shared love for concerts and the bands The Backseat Lovers and COIN.

“He saw them (The Backseat Lovers) in concert so we talked about that. And then we were just kind of suggesting music suggestions to each other,” Hagan said.

Hagan has since listened to one of Vann’s suggestions, the band ThirdStory, and loved it.

“I’ve been listening to it all day and it’s actually really good!” she said on the following Tuesday.

They discussed a shared dream to travel to Australia and their separate dreams of becoming a pediatric physician’s assistant and a theatrical lighting designer.

Hagan enjoyed her ravioli and tiramisu and said Puccini's environment helped the conversation flow.

“I liked it in there,” Hagan said. “It wasn’t too fancy, which was nice and didn’t make it high-stress.”

Hagan and Vann didn’t talk about seeing each other again at dinner, but Hagan said she’d be open to it.

“I feel like if it were to happen I would enjoy (a second date), but I don’t know if compatibility romantically was there as much as getting a new friend,” she said.

Next Tuesday, Hagan will get another chance to assess as she and Vann have already made plans for dinner and a movie via Snapchat.

Time will tell if this budding friendship will develop into anything more. Either way, Hagan is glad she went on the blind date.

“It was fun not knowing anything and then leaving knowing so much more about a person that I probably would’ve never met otherwise,” Hagan said.

Although it remains to be seen how these relationships progress, the blind dates gave four students the chance to sit down and meet someone that they probably would not have otherwise. And for those looking for a perfect spot for a first date of their own,