After graduation-cap-throwing and saying goodbye to my hometown, I imagined that I would be going away to college to meet the love of my life (while getting an education of course)! We would meet as freshman and fall in love and get married after graduation. I had a plan and I intended to stick to it, until I joined my sorority and met the actual loves of my life.

I realized that I don't need to look for my groom. College is about building lifelong friendships and making the memories that we can talk about at each others weddings. And let me tell you, I have only been here one semester and I could write a different maid of honor speech for each of my girls already with all the fun times and inside jokes we've had. I never thought that I would be in one of those friend groups, you know? Like the ones you see in movies. We do everything together, we talk alike, we dress alike - they are literally my soul mates. These six women are staples in my life and I am thankful to have met them.

While I think that college is the time to date and figure out what you want in a man, it's mostly the time when you should be finding the women that you want standing next to you when you say, "I do." It's common that in these four years, we will get our hearts broken, probably more than once, even by the guys we gushed over to our roommates and told our friends "He's the one." Or the guys we know we're no good for us but we went for it anyway. But ten years from now we aren't going to look back and say, "I really wish things had worked out with so-and-so." We are going to look back and say, "I am so glad that I had my girls there to pick up the broken pieces he left behind." Friends are forever, through the good times and the bad. Even when they don't agree with your choices, they still support you and give you the tough love we all need in these delicate years of our lives.

This is a time when we are supposed to make the mistakes that we can preach to our children about in the future. This is when we are supposed to go on spontaneous road trips and spend money we don't have. These are supposed to be the best years of our lives, and I don't want to look back and just remember that I was "husband hunting" the whole time. I want to remember going to the local diner two times in one day, making stupid snap chat videos, and spending a copious amount of time playing with puppies at the pet store. Sure, I might meet the man of my dreams at a frat party one weekend or at the library during finals week, but I'm not going to be disappointed if I don't. I would rather be spending these years being stupid with my friends than wasting the time away by planning for an unknown future. I have a home wherever my girls are, and not having a boy right now is all right by me.