It's a well known fact that the best thing about college is your friends. When we all go home at Christmas and for the summer, no one misses doing homework or going to their on-campus job. But we all miss our friends. Our friends are our support group. They make us laugh. They're there for us when we cry. And they make life interesting, because they're all so different. Here are 11 types of friends everyone has in college:
1. The roommate
You and your roommate may not be best friends. You might not even hang out in the same social circle. But you don't need to to become close with this person. There's something about sharing a tiny room that brings people together, even if they were perfect strangers when they moved in. If you become friends with your roommate, it will be one of the best friendships you have in college.
2. The friend you love, but couldn't live with
You love this friend to pieces, but you just couldn't live with them. Maybe they're much messier or a lot neater than you are. Maybe they're the kind of person that you need a break from every now and again. Either way, you value this person too much to mess up your friendship by trying to live together.
3. The one you love and could definitely live with
But for some inexplicable reason you don't.
4. The high school crew
You mostly only hang out as a group now when you're all home between semesters. But there are those one or two that you're still really close to and text every day and miss all the time.
5. Your friend's high school friend
So what if you've only met them between 0 and 1 times? Your friend talked about them so much that you felt like I knew them. So when they popped up on "people you may know" of course you friended them! And now your Facebook best friends and share each other's stuff all the time... oops.
6. The friend you met because of your major
The first time you studied together, you got stuff done and both aced the test. Recently, though, it seems to take you guys a lot longer to get through that study guide. But we'd all trade being able to actually study with someone for being the type of friends who laugh so hard you can't get anything done when you're together.
7. The friend you'd make out with
You don't have an actual crush on this friend, just weird, unresolved sexual tension with them. You'd probably have to be pretty drunk to do anything about it though.
8. The one you have a crush on
In a really bad, middle-school kind of way. No matter how much you tell yourself you're fine just being friends, you can't shake the feeling of really, really wanting to be something more.
9. The one you never see
But not because you're not friends. You're super close, they're just always busy with clubs, or work, or a 6 class load, or all of the above. Just makes it even more fun when you do get to hang out.
10. Your lunch date
It's easy to end up eating lunch alone in college, so the friend you have a set lunch date with a couple times every week is always special.
11. Your best friend
This is the friend who's down for anything, whether it be an 11pm trip to Wal-Mart, or a Friday night movie night. You never get tired of each others' company, and you can tell each other anything.
Maybe you only have a few close friends, and the types of friends overlap. Or maybe you have a huge friend group, encompassing even more kinds of friends than these 11. But no matter how many friends you have, they're all special and they all play an important role in your college life and beyond.
