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...Beidi Gu ’05 and Minhua Zhang...
When Beidi Gu ’05 and Minhua Zhang ’05 first met at their Shanghai middle school, sparks didn’t exactly fly. The two had been chosen to co-host the school’s Christmas concert, but Ms. Gu was nervous around her fellow emcee. “He was very famous because he was on student council,” she says. “I was so nervous I didn’t even look...
Some years later, after going on to attend different schools, they met again. Both were assigned to Weld Hall as first-years, and this time, Ms. Gu, now 23 and an economics concentrator in Dunster House, fixed her eye firmly on her middle school acquaintance. Ms. Gu struck up a close friendship with Mr. Zhang during the hustle and bustle of Opening Days...
...that first date, they walked ’round and ’round Harvard Square for hours. Conversation was easy: as Mr. Zhang says, “we really have language and experience to share.” They talked about the sometimes difficult transition from what Ms. Gu describes as the “homogenous Chinese society to the diverse Western society” and enjoyed conversing with each other in a mixture of English, Mandarin, and Shanghai dialect...
...Both of us plan for life and do look forward,” says Mr. Zhang. “We weren’t just dating for the sake of dating.” Although they had discussed marriage “on and off,” Ms. Gu says the proposal this past Valentine’s Day came as a “complete surprise.” The couple were so close by then that Mr. Zhang had to fib about his ring-purchasing expedition. He told Ms. Gu that he was “studying...