Meet Lowell’s Cutest Tutor Couple

It’s a little over a month into a new school year, and if you’re new to House life, you’re just getting acquainted with the tutors who live in your entryways. If you're lucky, they'll come in adorable pairs that will make you question the value of #hookup culture.

Case in point: meet Ian B. Seiple and Michaela P. Danek, or the Will and Kate of Lowell House O entryway.

He's just a boy, she's just a girl, but actually, he’s a post-doc in Chemistry currently working on antibiotics and she’s a high school teacher with a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. They met competing together on a triathlon team when Michaela was at the University of California, San Diego and Ian was studying next door at the Scripps Research Institute. Can you say power couple?

Ian has been a tutor in Lowell for two years, but Michaela applied a year later after living separately to complete her master’s program. With regards to their dual partnership, Ian says, “It wasn’t part of any plan. We didn’t think about it until partway through when she started spending a lot of time here and really enjoying the House system.”

But despite how cute they are together, Ian and Michaela say that they do a lot separately in the House. Michaela says that students are more comfortable meeting with each of them separately because otherwise they feel like they would be intruding on a date if they’re together. Third wheelin' so hard.