David Senra

So I met like the couple other transfer students and that was it.

And back to being shy, like I wasn't at the time good at like navigating a new social situation.

I just, I wasn't good at it.

So Tim, who I had met like maybe, I didn't know Tim well.

You know, Tim was from the Midwest.

I didn't know him that well growing up.

He took it upon himself to come meet me, find me.

I remember distinctly he brought me a fake ID.

he went so out of his way for like the first six months to like organ transplant me into his social circle.

And like maybe Tim owed me a beer or two, you know, a couple nights out and a beer was his obligation as a family member.

But instead he would like call ahead to his friends saying like, I'm sick, I can't go out, but Patrick's coming out.

Can you just like show him a good time?

Just like over and over and over again.

Like literally he just injected me into this community.

Tim is the reason that I met my wife, which I'm gonna come back to in a second, met my best man, met the only other groomsman in my wedding that wasn't a family member.

So, you know, through this act of over the top kindness of just, there was nothing in it for him.

He was just doing the right thing.

It sort of set me up for the rest of my life, which brings me to the second thing.

My first night at Notre Dame, Tim shows up with this fake ID that says I'm five foot four with blonde hair and blue eyes.

And we go to a place called Boat Club, which let me in with this fake ID and was shut down for letting people in with this sort of fake ID like three weeks later, permanently.