In elementary school, you have the friends who did the little things with you, like go on the swing set with you at the playground during recess, or play in the sandbox, and then sometimes not hang out with you the next day. In middle school, it’s the same thing, but your best friend becomes the person who gave you the best piece of gum you’ve ever had. In high school, your best friend might stand up for you in a tough situation, and leaves the friend group at the end of senior year, since. But in college, the bond between you and your friends is even closer and will last a lifetime.

Freshman year is the year where the friend group begins to form. You either meet at parties, school clubs, sports teams, or even through other friends and you stay with that same group all through your four years. You may make some new friends and add those friends to that group of people, but usually keep the original 3-4 people in the friend group that never left.

Of course you make new friends and want to explore new things in college, but the friend group you made freshman-sophomore year in college, stays by your side through everything. Not only are they always there for you, but you always find a way to have a good time too. It’s important to have that someone or group of people that will stick with you through your college years, because that way, you will stick together through it all.

After high school, you sometimes travel for school, and end up not being as close to the friends from school that you’ve grown up with all your life because you wanted a change, but in college, you’ll find that one group of friends that are not afraid to be themselves around you, and not afraid to do some of the things you wanted to do.

Even if you travel after college, your college friends will always stick around. I mean, you’ve basically lived with them all four years, it’s kind of hard to just leave the friends that have lived with you for that long. They will always be there. Even if they are a phone call away. They will never forget about you. Or leave your side. Part of them will always remember you.