Elizabeth Seaman and Brett Davis

The match Vox made for its first edition of Date Lab Georgetown sounds pretty promising on paper.

He’s an art lover and wannabe-adventurer (if he were on a reality show, he says, it would be Amazing Race) who says he wants “a nice girl with an edge, someone who is interesting and passionate about something.”

She’s a competitive pre-med student who produces and directs plays on campus. If she had to be on a reality show, she said in her Date Lab survey response, she would choose Flavor of Love, “because I could totally take those other girls,” she writes.

So Vox paired Elizabeth Seaman (COL `12) and Brett Davis (COL `11) in the hopes that the two would spark over coffee at Uncommon Grounds. Despite his determined tardiness, Davis got to UG first. “I didn’t want to get there on time because I didn’t want to be first. All the girls who were working behind the counter at UG were looking at me,” he said.

Seaman showed up within a couple of minutes and spotted Davis. And to their mutual surprise, the two experienced “hey, I saw you every day in Italian class last semester” at first sight. Lesson learned: Facebook is not the end-all, be-all guide to who knows who on campus.

“We both thought it was really funny,” Seaman said. “We were joking with friends beforehand about how campus was so small that it was likely we would know the person we were meeting, or had at least seen them all over the place before.”

Since the two were already casual friends, they both said, it was pretty clear from the start of the date that their relationship was headed nowhere romantically. But they grabbed drinks anyway, a chai tea for her, a mango iced tea for him, and spent an hour catching up. (Besides the usual “what did you do this summer?”, the two compared Date Lab survey responses, trying to divine which of their answers caused us to pair them together.)

At the date’s end, there was no exchange of numbers, and the two don’t have plans to see each other again. Both of them gave the date a positive postmortem, but they agreed there was no spark. Maybe she needs someone who’s more of a Flavor of Love type:

“She told a really funny story about how she got into a fight with a priest once back home,” Davis said. He says he’s never had a comparable experience.

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Thanks to Uncommon Grounds for providing the free food and drinks.  Photo by Jackson Perry.

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