When you get to college, so much changes. You live away from home, you experience cafeteria "food," and you meet new people. You and your high school friends all went your separate ways, and you need to find someone new to lean on and be able to trust in the same ways. If you're as lucky as I have been, you'll meet this person in your first semester and become as close as my best friend and I have. You'll find someone you'll love forever and always have by your side. You still have your best friend from home, but this is a best friend in a whole different way. You learn so many new things from and with them.
1. You will always have someone who is willing to go get food with you.
Even if it's 11 p.m. and you slept through dinner, they're willing to go with you. This is a beautiful quality in a friend (especially when you both live at school and there are only certain hours you can eat in the dining hall).
2. You can tell them absolutely anything and they will still love you.
They will probably judge you and tell you that you're stupid or that they're disappointed in you, but two minutes later, they won't even remember what you told them because they'll be too busy talking about something else. Dwelling is for squares.
3. You will always get exactly what you want for your birthday.
They know you so well that they'll get you exactly what you want without you even having to tell them. (Yes, pizza is what I wanted for my birthday this year.)
4. They will love you forever, even after seeing you at your absolute worst.
They've seen you cry (and also seen you very, very drunk), but they don't even care because you're each other's best friends and you've seen them in the same exact situations.
5. You are the first person they would call in a crisis (and they're the first you would call, as well).
They're the only person you would do that for and not think twice about it. They deserve it for putting up with you all the time, anyways. They don't even hate you for not proofreading your heart-to-heart texts (how embarrassing).
6. You know that you will always have someone to take weird pictures with.
They won't even make fun of how stupid you look for that long.
7. You've had your roommate for the following year picked out since the day you started considering the two of you best friends.
You haven't worried for a second about whether or not they will still want to room with you the following year because you couldn't bear to live with anyone else.
8. You always have someone to obnoxiously dance in the car with.
You can obnoxiously dance to literally any song (including Christmas music while you're sitting in your car outside the house with the dancing Christmas light show in their front yard.)
9. You always have someone to celebrate holidays at school with.
A lot of college students never get in the Christmas spirit, but you know your roommate will go all out with you. This also includes lots and lots of holiday drinking (cough, cough New Years.)
10. You are obnoxiously close.
Everyone knows that the two of you are best friends, and you accidentally rub it in everyone's faces. Sorry!
11. You dislike the same people on campus (which is a lot of people, even if you go to a really, really small school).
12. You share puppy pictures, videos, tweets, etc. with each other.
13. You let them ask you really dumb questions, and you don't even hate them for that long afterwards.
14. You know how to solve all of each other's problems.
Wine night!
15. You will love them forever.
Thanks for being my forever friend, and for helping me adjust to college. You're the only one who puts up with my obnoxiousness, and I'm so glad to have found you.
