“I can barely type and he’s sitting there making like, a Hackintosh or something”
Vanessa and Vincent came to the National Mall under the impression that it was the home of Bao Bao, the world’s greatest panda bear, unaware that the National Zoological Park was just a bit more North up Connecticut Ave. The couple instead spent their day at the National Museum of Natural History, which is their favorite museum anyways.
The couple met at Florida International University, and they moved together to DC. They now live in an increasingly gentrified Capitol Hill alongside congressmen and women, lobbyists, journalists, political fixers—the real life Olivia Popes—and various political tycoons. As they are younger and arguably less-established than many of their neighbors, Vanessa and Vincent seem somewhat out of place among Washington’s elite, yet perfectly needed in such a town. They’re in DC to make something of themselves and the world they live in. Beautiful, young, and in love, they both plan to change the world starting with attending graduate school in DC in the fall.
Vanessa traveled alone to the states from Argentina to study International Relations— diplomacy’s delicate dance—in hopes of safeguarding the world for coming generations. Vincent, a computer whiz, studies Geography and Information Sciences, an emerging scientific field in which he develops and uses information science infrastructure to solve problems of geography, geosciences and related branches of engineering. He’s particularly interested in technical geography and mapping cartography, and might study the spread of disease.
Ultimately, they’re both searching for the intersection of academia and humanity. At the present, they’re content with the excitement of life found in between college and what-comes-next, as they too anxiously await for the cherry blossoms to bloom.
Photo: Caitlin Joelle Cain, The Georgetown Voice
