In college its hard to make and maintain friendships. It’s not like in high school where you see your friends every day at school. In college you need to find and set aside time to see your friends, there needs to be an effort. But also in college, everyone is more mature and more open with what they like and don’t like. No one is “fake” and eventually, you find the people who love you for you, not who you pretend to be.

A couple months ago, I wrote an article about how in college, I found the me that I love. Part of the reason that I love myself now are the girls who I met who made my freshman year. Everyone says that they “don’t know where they would be without their best friends.” But I literally don't know where I would be right now if it weren’t for these three girls. I want to thank those girls for making my freshman year everything I hoped it could be and more.

Thank you for breaking me out of my shell and forcing me to be social and not just some loser who sits in her room and reads for hours on end. Thank you for getting me to go out and meet people. But also thank you for letting me have those time where I do sit in my room and read and be a loser.

Thank you for loving me regardless of the fact that I am a huge English nerd. Thank you for loving me even though I cry because rhetorical analysis essays make me so happy. Thank you for letting me rant about books, that I both love and hate. Thank you for letting me help you with essays because you know nothing makes me happier than writing. Thank you for letting me rant about how English is important and that everyone should read at least one book in their lifetime.

Thank you for always asking me if I'm okay and making sure that I really am okay and not just saying I am. Thank you for helping make sure that I’m healthy mentally and still loving me regardless of the fact that sometimes I just get sad.

Thanks for taking long study breaks to play “Don’t Let the Ball Hit the Floor,” and for going to the gym with me (sometimes). Without these moments where we’re sitting about and joking and being children, I think I would literally go insane and my brain would be like soup in my skull.

Finally, thank you for being my soulmates. Thank you for having the same sense of humor that I do, and for literally be extensions of myself. Thank you for everything you’ve all done for me this semester, I love you and I can’t wait for the next three years with y’all.