There's something appealing about the college life as seen in movies and television. The hundreds of new people you pass everyday, living in a dorm with your best friends, the parties, and the freedom of entering the real world, away from parents and most adults not in a classroom setting. However, there is little that people are told when it comes to acknowledging how the removal from you hometown can change your relationships with the people you consider to be your best friends.

I must say that, by some stroke of luck, I have found myself able to defy the odds. Admittedly, as much as I was looking forward to the change in atmosphere, there was nothing that matched the pain I knew would come when my group of friends had to part ways as we went to our different schools, many of which hours away from one another. There were the girls I trudged through life with, some of them long-time friends from kindergarten. Losing them to the distance and our separate lives in college was a genuine fear that tore at my heart.

However, two years later and we are as strong as we ever were in high school, with not a day going back that I'm not in contact with at least one of my nine closest friends. On a daily basis, I can expect dozens of texts in which we all discuss the most recent topic worthy of stirring excitement in the group chat, ranging from an inside joke to how we all feel as if we are failing out of school.

Naturally, on the other side of the coin, days may pass where I do not hear much from one of my friends. This is not considered to be a concern, as you can always expect an update after a grace period, usually consisting of a new complaint from the past several days in which we will engage in a group analysis to dissect what can be done or laugh at the comedy that comes from viewing it from an outside and removed perspective.

Even in the moments of distance, when our communication is limited to quick texts between classes because of our conflicting and busy schedules, I cannot imagine moving on in my life with those I truly consider to be like sisters to me. After everything we have gone through from sitting in the middle of our high school hallway, studying for a test that we all were sure we were bound to fail, to standing in a Dairy Queen parking lot for hours and talking the night before leaving for college, I know that these are the people I am my honest self around.

I am lucky to say that I met several of the best people in my life, and that I refuse to let them go. They say that college is the time in your life when you meet your future bridesmaids, but I've had mine picked out before I ever moved into my dorm. My friends from high school did not disappear when I went into college, and technology is certainly to be thanked for that. Thank you for holding the group together like glue, and thank you to my best friends for never letting a moment stay dull.