You know how sometimes you could literally forget what you ate the day before, but other times you literally remember exactly the way something happened?
That is 100% how I am with this story.
I first started at Rowan University in September 2015, and I still remember this like it happened yesterday. I was a transfer student. I was new. I knew people who went to Rowan, but I didn’t know anyone in my classes.
I was walking to my second class of the day, pretty sure it was my last one. It was the first day of classes and all I could think about was how I knew no one.
Until I walked into the building my class was in and ran right into someone I knew. We hugged quickly, caught up, and went our separate ways.
I felt a little better until I couldn’t find my classroom. So I walked into an office and asked for freshman move.
So I finally found where I was supposed to be, and I ran into someone else I knew. We were in the same class. I was seriously so happy.
So the professor opened the door and people started flooding in. I walked in before the person I knew thinking, “He’ll definitely follow me."
Yeah, I was dead wrong. He sat elsewhere.
Off to a great start.
So I find a seat all the way in the back of this lecture hall. I watched people come in and slightly thought no one would sit with me.
Wrong again. Two for two.
The professor went on her usual "first day of class" speech and then began teaching. I truly hate these kinds of professors; I always have.
I started taking notes, and the girl who sat next to me turned to me and asked if she could get a copy of them.
She showed me her hurt hand, explained, and I agreed to share them with her. She introduced herself; ironically, her last name is my first name.
We instantly became friends, and we stayed friends, even after the semester was over. Even after she left Rowan, we became best friends.
That first day when I thought I would literally know no one and I would have no friends all semester, she swooped in and changed that.
And honestly, I don’t know what I would do without her now. Even though she’s an hour and a half away, we talk all day every day. We have a bomb Snapchat streak. We went away together for spring break.
I’m thankful for that first day she was willing to talk to me, and she continued to for the last three years. I could never imagine life without her.