Getting Married Where It All Began Brandon Shih and Wenyi Gu met in their first college class, only to discover they lived in the same dorm. Almost a decade later, they eloped on the college campus where they fell in love. Credit...Sophie Kaye Jan. 1, 2021 On the first day of his first college class, Brandon Hsuan-Yuan Shih was nervously awaiting his turn to speak. He was in a freshman seminar at Princeton, and the students were asked to share something about themselves as an icebreaker. Mr. Shih had an answer prepared about how he loved music and playing tennis, until the woman sitting right next to him said the exact same thing.