You celebrated each other when you got your acceptances to your respective schools, but there was an underlying sadness of attending separate campuses. Now that you go to different schools, here are five things you will definitely experience during your time apart.
1. You seriously consider transferring at least once, if not every day.
Let’s face it, no matter how great your school is, how many friends you make and how well you transition into your new school, life just isn’t the same. What are you going to do without your best friend in every class? Actually pay attention? You’d much rather watch vines and stalk people’s Instagram with her.
2. You travel to visit each other.
You will drive for hours to visit her, even when her roommate sucks and her dorm is too small to sleep comfortably. There’s no real reason for this visit other than to just be with each other and catch up because let’s be honest, phone calls and texts are not enough. Even FaceTime is not even close to actually being with each other. Once you finally are together, the time seems to fly by and soon you’re having to drive away again, back to your own campus.
3. Your best friend knows all your new friends without having actually met them.
She knows their names, backgrounds, and funny late night stories. She even follows them on Instagram because any friend of yours is a friend of hers. It’s not creepy, it’s endearing and even though they have never met it’s heartwarming to see your friends get along.
4. Your mom constantly asks about them.
Every time you call home you are asked more questions about your best friend and how she’s adjusting to college and when she’s coming home and how her mom is and if she needs anything. It’s almost like she’s your mom’s actual child, even though she practically is.
5. You constantly act like you're with your best friend, at the dismay of your new friends.
You always reference inside jokes that nobody else knows about and you think speaking in weird voices in completely normal. You feel awkward realizing you're staring at somebody because they don’t understand the wordless language you and your best friend have. Your new friends actually talk in complete sentences and don’t have strange nicknames yet, and they probably don’t understand why that one Nicki Minaj song is such a big deal to you.
No matter what, no matter the distance or the lack of time you have for each other, there will always be an unbreakable bond between you and your best friend. Without her, you wouldn’t be where you are now and no matter how long it’s been since you have seen each other, it’s like no time has passed at all when you get back together.
