By Dinah Alobeid

As Jason Piette began fumbling with the camera and film he made sure to use up on Oct. 1, 2004, his nerves got the best of him and he started to tremble.

As he knelt down in between the reflection pool and the fountain – to “change the film,” he said – he pulled out the white gold princess-cut ring and proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Samantha Bugden. They both began to shake and cry.

And she said yes.

Now the couple is living together and planning their wedding. There’s one small thing, however, that may have their friends and fellow students scratching their heads – they’re both only 20 years old.

Piette, a middler supply-chain management major and the vice president for internal affairs of the Council for University Programming (CUP), knew from their first kiss their senior year of high school that Bugden, a second-semester sophomore civil engineering major at Wentworth, was the one. Now, the couple is in the midst of planning a wedding while attending college and keeping up their grades.

A portion of college students consider engagement and marriage throughout their years as a student, but what turns a “serious” relationship into one that could last a lifetime?

As Bugden and Piette discussed their relationship and goals and plans for the future, a level of comfort emanated from their conversation and mannerisms.

“The church [for the wedding] is reserved. Good call,” said Bugden, as Piette gave his fianc