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To My Freshman Year Friends

Katherine Bauer
Mar 09, 2015
Iowa State University
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To My Freshman Year Friends

Dear freshman year friends,

Looking back on my freshman year of college, I have no doubt in my mind that I would not have survived if I didn't have you all by my side, and for that I want to say thank you. 

Thank you for talking to me at orientation for engineers when there were only three other girls in the room.

Thank you for continuing to talk to me when we moved into our dorm.

Thank you for being by my side during formal recruitment, because let's be honest recruitment was insane.

Thank you for going out to our first college party with me...

...and thank you for dancing with me outside at that party while getting sand in our shoes.

Thank you for listening to me drone on and on about high school and cheerleading and how much I missed my best friends (because you did too).

Thank you for letting me steal from your closet constantly...

...and thank you for not being angry when I didn't give those clothes back for weeks.

Thank you for letting me use your Netflix account when I didn't have my own.

Thank you for our time spent watching Netflix on separate laptops in the same room.

Thank you for always meeting me for lunch on campus so I didn't have to eat by myself.

Thank you for putting up with my crazy antics, my rants, and tears.

Thank you for being the best and worst influence you could possibly be.

Thank you for staying by my side through the ups and downs of freshman year...

...and finally, thank you for making college our new home.

I wouldn't have wanted to have anyone else by my side.

Love and hugs,

Your freshman year (and many more to come) friend.

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