The transition from high school to college can be a scary one, especially if you didn't know anyone coming in like I did. Making friends and being social has always been easy for me, but there was just something about being in a new place all by myself with so many other new people around me that intimidated me.
As I write this, I only have four weeks left of my freshman year. It's crazy how fast time flew by. All those nights I spent doing homework, projects, crying and stressing, drinking coffee, and pulling all nighters were awful... But what got me through every. single. time. was the fact that I had amazing friends by my side doing it with me.
I'm positive that if I didn't have the friends I do today, I would NOT have been able to handle college. All the midnight trips to get food and random road trips to who knows where were always memory filled and added abundantly to my freshman year experience. It's not just that though, college is about finding those friends that you can see yourself hanging out with in the summer even if you're states apart. It's going to them when you're crying about anything and everything or going to them because you're so happy that you just passed a big test. It's having someone to talk to at 2am and having someone that has your back no matter what.
I have five of these friends, and we tend to call ourselves "The Squad". Of course. I have other friends that mean the world to me, but I hangout with these certain five people every day and it never gets tiring. Every day with them brings something new and adds to our logo of "do it for the mems!!!" which is memories abbreviated. What's funny to me is that I never had to go out and look for this friendship, I didn't know that I wanted us to all be best friends. It just kinda happened. We just fell together through mutual classes and friends, and it was the start of something really awesome!
If you're about to be a college freshman, then my advice to you is to not freak out. Don't stress about making friends right away! It's okay to be nervous about it, but don't freak out. It's not the end of the world to have your roommate as your go to hangout friend for the first couple weeks. But as classes go by, you'll find yourself sitting by the same people in classes and then hanging out with them for lunch or dinner. Make use of that, because you never know what might evolve from it.
Also, I know my school did this and I'm sure many other schools do this as well, have a freshman orientation week that's filled with activities for the students to get to know one another and make friends. Use that time wisely, because you'll be able to get a head start on meeting new people! You'll then be able to come back to this blog post and smile because you found those special friends!
Proverbs 18:24, "One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." I like this verse a lot because it basically implies that if someone has horrible friends, then they'll be miserable. But if someone has friends that are super close to them, then they'll be happy and content with life and that friend will be more of a sibling to them rather than just a friend.
