Leaving Your Best Friends Behind In College Is Never Easy
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Leaving Your Best Friends Behind In College Is Never Easy

Spending Time Away From Your Friends Will Make You Treasure Your Time Together

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Leaving Your Best Friends Behind In College Is Never Easy
Emilie Helmbold

If you’re anything like I was at this point last year, you’re in the midst of panicking about having to leave your best friends behind when you go to college this August.

You have a bucket list of everything you want to do together before you have to give your final goodbyes and start a new chapter in life. Every spare minute you all have is spent together laughing about things you can’t even remember the next day, let alone the next year.

My best memories throughout my childhood have involved them in some way or another. We met and befriended each other during preschool, so we’ve been together for 13 years. We know every little thing about each other, and any of us could probably order for the other two without them ever telling us what they want. We’ve been together through awkward middle school years, three casts, two pairs of glasses, and every crisis in-between. My best friends from my hometown are closer to my sisters than my best friends at this point, and leaving them to go to college was almost unimaginable.

So, for anyone wondering what happens when you leave your best friends to go to college, let me sum it up for you:

You will cry together on the phone.

You can act like you won’t, but let’s face it – the first thing you’ll start missing about home when you get to college is your best friends. Within the first six hours of moving in, you’ll be crying about how much you miss each other on the phone, but…

You will find other friends.

College is a breeding ground for friendships (along with mono, but that’s besides the fact), and although the new friends you make could never replace your best friends from home, they’re all amazing in different ways.

Remember to take lots of pictures.

You will find yourself looking through your Facebook Memories at all the pictures of you and your best friends from home, wishing you could go back in time to when these pictures were taken, and enjoy your time together even more.

The time you spend together with your best friends will be even more special.

When you get to spend time together during school holidays, you realize that you treasure the times you get to spend together even more now that you’ve been without them for a month or two! You laugh a little harder at the stupid things you all do together, and you all enjoy catching up on all the missed stories. There’s never a dull moment when you come back from school to see your best friends again!

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