When we go to college, we expect to make friends from all different places, but sometimes we're lucky enough to make friends who come from the same place as us.
If your best friends at school also become your best friends at home, here are five things that will happen:
1. Did we really travel 870 miles to realize that we were all meant to be best friends?
The awaited day arrives of your first day of school and even though you may not have associated before, you will stick together because it is college and everyone needs a friend. Then as days go on, you will find yourselves laughing in the middle of dinner saying, “Is it not bizarre how there are a million colleges out there and we all choose to go across the country for school, all to find we're the best of friends?” Yes, you did and are so blessed about it.
2. Being homesick becomes easier knowing that you are all missing the same place.
Being from Chicago, the lines, “Ugh, I could really go for a Portillo’s Cake Shake right now” or “I really want to go shopping on Michigan Ave.” are frequent phrases used to describe what we are all missing a little extra from home.
3. The school community will begin to know you are the three best friends from whatever hometown you just might be from.
For us, people across campus refer to us as the “Chicago Chicks.” The nickname will proceed to become your group chat name and be featured in every Instagram caption ever that includes the squad.
4. You will of course create a million other friends or even be a part of the same friend group, but will still set time aside to hang out and talk about hometown things.
The text reading, “Anyone want to go shopping?” will pop up frequently on your phone and you will shop and talk until you drop. The comfort of being with people from home can always brighten your day.
5. When you are back home for breaks, you will consistently send texts begging to spend the day actually shopping on Fifth Ave., enjoying that Portillo's Cake Shake.
You will sit at dinner for hours gossiping about how much you want to go back to school and you will laugh until you cry discussing every memory made over the past year. You will then recognize how lucky you are to be so lucky to have these friends share memories with you both on campus and at home.