In the fall of 2015, Maisha Visram and Manpreet Toor met on campus at Western University in Canada, where they both attended Ivey Business School. “We were one year apart, but all business students spent the majority of their time in the same building,” Manpreet explains. “One day, Maisha ran out of class, and I asked my friend who she was.
I found out later she had also seen me in the atrium and asked her friends the same thing. Our friends knew each other and us, but we had never met, which was crazy given we had so many mutual connections.” Manpreet had a part-time job as a peer advisor and one of their duties was to host a fake networking session where junior year students—which included Maisha’s class—got to role play these real life scenarios that were about to take place on campus in the coming months with recruiting season about to pick up.
Different peer advisors covered different time slots for this “fake networking session,” and Manpreet was assigned to her timeslot. “At this session, I was given a fake name,” Manpreet remembers. “We got to chatting in a group setting—strictly business—at the session.
Later that day we ran into each other several times and she kept using my fake name to say hi to me—really she was just flirting with me.” “For the record—I definitely made the first move,” Maisha jokes. About a week later, Manpreet asked Maisha to his fraternity’s formal.
They started dating shortly thereafter, and the couple g.