You know you’ve found your people in college when they can make you laugh until you pee, you walk into their room as if it were yours and it’s only necessary to add your name to their door, and don’t have to filter your words. You know it’s friendship when your dinner plans are never just you and your phone, you can have powwows at 1 a.m., and you aren’t able to distinguish whether the tank-top in your laundry basket is yours or your friend’s that you borrowed for a party. Luckily for me, I’ve found the people who I’ve shared all of these moments with. It has come to the point where “fam” is the only word to describe us.
College friends are more than just extra likes on your Instagram photo or people to go to parties with. I recently went home for two days, and by the first night, I was already starting to miss being able to walk to their doors in under thirty seconds. They are like twenty more brothers and sisters added to my life (minus the friend group incest). At this exact moment, my friend is sitting underneath my roommate’s duvet as I write this article. This isn’t even an unusual sight for me. In fact, most people check my room before her own when looking for her. And don’t even doubt that we just ordered Domino's two hours after eating dinner.
You would think spending all day, every day with people would eventually make you hate everyone, but there’s something about college that forces you not to. It is because they are the only ones that you have here. They are your support system, parents, little siblings, and everyone else you left behind at home. They are the ones who tell you to stop drinking at parties, the ones who tickle you until it physically hurts, and the ones who you can cuddle with when you get homesick.
These are the people that I hoped I would find in college. Like many incoming college freshmen, my biggest concern was finding my friend group, my people. I never would have imagined being so lucky as to find such a large and close group of friends. As opposed to the few close friends that I had in high school, I am now in a group chat with thirty-one other people just from my floor. For many students, it does not happen so quickly. Some still have not found their people, but that does not mean they never will. This is exactly what college is for. Almost nobody knows who you were in high school, so give it your all and find people you maybe would never speak to.
If you have not found your people in college yet, do not worry. You will, and you will know when you’ve found them. I cannot imagine my college experience without my new friends. They are what makes my college experience. So go out and find your people.
