What does Jager think of the proposal now? Reflecting back on the moment, which occurred just as the two parted ways — he for Harvard while she headed to Seoul — she said, "Mostly, I think, out of a sense of desperation over our eventual parting and not in any real faith in our future." The two continued to date on and off while Barack was at law school, but as fate would have it, he met a certain Michelle and the rest, well...you know what happened.