I’ve always been between friend groups or I’ve been the friend who was just there, rather than being someone’s absolute best friend. When I got to college I met so many nice people and I found a lot of people who I really get along with, so I started to hang out with them. Once I realized that it was still just like it was in high school, I met a girl down the hall from me and little did I know she would soon become my person.

Starting college is nerve-wracking and absolutely bizarre, but here at UD, they gave us a few days to adjust through group activities by floor. The first time I met my person was at our floor 2A breakfast in the dining hall, and she really made a great impression on me. She’s outgoing and funny and sweet, and the first thing I remember her and I having a conversation about was her high school’s state-champion bowling team. Now she wasn’t a part of it, but it was still something I remembered a few days later when I ran into her in the hallway.

Ironically, the way that the two of us started to become closer was her telling me how the girl across the hall from me transferred before classes even began. From that moment on, we started to get to know each other and hang out more. We realized we had similar schedules, so we started to go to meals together and study together.

That first Thursday night was our first football game, and I went with other friends. Once I got there, I saw the girl from down the hall and started to hang out with her and the girls she came with because they seemed fun and welcoming. That was our first picture together, and from then on every time we go out or look good we take about a million pictures together.

My person is someone who I go to when I’m happy or sad or anything in between. She gets me and I get her, the connection was almost instantaneous and we bonded over high school stories, freshman year struggles, and many other things.

Now, I’ve had best friends in the past, but this is different. I feel like for once I’ve found a person who is going to be there for me absolutely whenever I need her and I’ll be the same way for her. I know that I always have someone to go to parties with, someone to hang out with, someone to eat meals with, someone to go to campus events with, someone to share clothes with, someone to study with, someone to take impromptu field trips with, and most importantly, someone to be there for me.

Now, we’ve only been here for a little over a month, but spending every single day with someone really helps you get to know them quickly and the two of us are literally two peas in a pod. We watch the same shows, listen to the same music, have the same taste in clothes and decorations, and we never run out of things to talk about. I didn’t expect to find my person so quickly, but I did and I have never been happier.

In the wise words of Dr. Cristina Yang, “if I murdered someone, she’s the person I’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor. She’s my person.”

My person is the Meredith to my Cristina, the Serena to my Blair, the Robin to my Lily. I don’t know where I’d be without her and her constant support and all the laughs we share. There’s no one I’d rather spend all my time with and no one I’d rather experience all the craziness of college with.

Clicking with someone so quickly and becoming best friends so fast is an incredible thing and I know that she is someone I will never lose because she is the best friend that I’ve been waiting for, she knows the struggle of old high school friendships, she knows me so well already, and the two of us are constantly making new plans for the future.

Here’s to us, A.

XO,

M