Transferring in the middle of term isn't always the easiest. When everybody already has their friend groups picked out. Having to pick last minute classes, and not being able to get involved in most clubs or societies until the fall. But sometimes you find friends that make everything easier for you and that help you settle in. Even when you are all shy and awkward at first they accept you how you are, fill you in with all the gossip and drama at school, and let you let into their group like your been there since freshman year.

When you are all lonely in your room on a Saturday night with nothing to do. You will usually get a knock on the door asking if you want to hangout, go on a McDonald’s run at 2 a.m., watch movies, or even get the invite to the occasional party.

There will be times when you feel like you don’t belong at your new school, or that you joined the friend group to late,it will leave you wishing you started college there since freshman year. Instead of transferring in the middle of the term. But when you are having those mental breakdowns, and think you have no friends. They will let you know that you are not alone and that they have your back on matter what.

There will be times when you don’t always get the invite and you will think it was because they don’t want to hangout with you but that isn’t the case at all. You have to remember that they have been friends since freshman year. Sometimes you just have to just barge in their room and join in on the conversation, or even just hop into their cars as their driving off. You may think its rude at first to just invite yourself. But in some friend groups that is completely normal.

You may even get put into a dorm where everybody but a few people are in Gamma Delta. So some nights may get lonely when they are off at joints having the time of their lives,while you are stuck in your dorm room watching Netflix because you are not apart of their society. Don’t worry though coming next fall you can rush and then you won’t have to have anymore of those boring nights alone.

Just be yourself when you transfer into a new college and the right friends will come your way. Don't act like the shy and awkward girl if that isn't you, show them who you really are because odds are they are just as crazy as you are. I may not of talked a lot my first semester at Illinois College but the friends I made loved me anyways. They were patient with me because they didn’t know how hard it was to transition into a new college.

So to my college friends I just want to say thank you for accepting me into your friend group as I transferred to IC in the spring. You showed me that you really do find your best friends in college. You made me dread going home for the summer because lets face it I have like 5 friends from my hometown, and you have me counting down the days until August 28th when we can finally reunite again.

Thank you for always taking care of me when I couldn't take care of myself and for always having food in your rooms that I could eat when I forgot to get snacks the night before. thank you for always going to eat nasty caf food with me so I didn't look like a loner eating alone (even though it happened a couple of times if our schedules didn't match up). So here’s to two more years of endless nights of laughing, deep conversations, 2 a.m. nug runs, watching Netflix, and crazy memories.