For commuter students, the best weekends throughout the semester are when your best friend comes home for a visit. It can be pretty hard to make friends on campus as a commuter, since you typically only go to school when you have class and have no desire to spend your spare time on campus. Having your best friend back home, even just for the weekend, is a breath of fresh air during the stresses of school. Here are the eight stages that you go through as a commuter reuniting with your best friend.
1. The annoying small talk
As soon as you finally see that oh-so-refreshing familiar face and attack them with a giant bear hug, you immediately follow with "OMG Hi! I've missed you so much! How are you?! How are you're classes?" This stage is basically a bunch of word vomit because after that two-hour-long Facetime call you had three days ago, you know all of the answers to these annoying but necessary questions.
2. The selfie session
Once you're both done with your word vomit, a selfie session is obviously the next stage. You have to show all of your Instagram followers that you really do have friends even if it's only one.
3. Catching up
Now this is probably the best stage of the reunion in my opinion. You get to listen to all of the juicy drama about boys or their roommate that they couldn't tell you on the phone since one of their suite mates is always around listening. You also get to live through their stories and pretend like you know first hand the struggles of going away to school.
4. Reminiscing
Here you get to relive your infamous duos glory days. "Remember when we stayed up all night doing..." or "How about that time we went..." It's always nice to remember the things that made you both so close.
5. Making up for lost time
Prior to your BFF coming home you think you have a solid three days to do all of your favorite things. This fantasy quickly gets ruined when you realize they have other friends to see and their mom insists they go see every relative before they leave again. Now you have to jam-pack your three day itinerary into just one, but you make it work.
6. The "bum" night
You both probably planned to get all dressed up to do something fun and you were super excited to finally have someone to go out with. However, there's a 99 percent chance this doesn't end up happening. After a day full of running all over town and filling each other in on your lives, you decide to spend the night simply "bumming" it at someone's house. Sitting on the couch, stuffing your faces with pizza and popcorn while watching (and saying every line to) Mean Girls like the good old days.
7. The 10 hour goodbye
This is obviously the worst part of the weekend. You spent so much time anticipating the reunion just to have it end so quickly. When you bring your BFF back to their house you're both in denial and try to talk about anything and everything so that they never have to leave your car. Eventually you realize you've been sitting there for over an hour and are forced to say your real goodbye.
8. The Monday morning nostalgia
After just saying goodbye to your BFF the last thing you want to do is go to class on Monday. All you can think about is how much fun you had together and how you wish every weekend could be like it. Now you are back to your lonely commute.
