The first year of college taught me a lot but the most important lesson it could have taught me was how to love my friends harder and stronger, how to know my true friends, and how to make friends I never would have expected. When summer comes around, however, many of these new (or old) friends don't like next door like high school friends did. We must always remember them when summer comes around.
Dear the friends I met at college,
First of all, thank you. Thank you for teaching me to love you and to love myself. Thank you for letting me take over your room until 3am for laugh and cry sessions. Thank you for listening to my endless stories and exaggerations. Thank you. You all have done so much for me this year at college and I can't thank you enough. Words cannot be used to thank you because there would not be enough words.
As summer has now started, we may loose touch a little but I hope we don't. I know that when we get back to college together, it will be like no time has passed. I can't wait for that moment, but I know I must. So, while summer is here and we are all apart, and unable to laugh, cry, tell stories, and chat at all hours of the night, at least in person, I want you to know that it still kind of feels like you are right next to me, encouraging me to go after what I want and to quit what I do not like.
You all have taught me so much about myself this past year. In just a few short weeks it feels as though we have been friends forever. When we are all together or broken off in just a few of us, I know that you are the friends I was meant to make. Whether we met in class, during recruitment, once we joined the best sorority in the world, or before college actually started, I can't wait to get back to living our crazy-filled college life! I can't wait for all the memories we are going to make in the next even more crazy three years, and I hope you can't either!!
Xoxo,
A college kid in her first summer break
