College is a weird, hard time in your life. You're away from your family and comfort of your home. Home brings you warmth and happiness inside. Home has your pets. Home has your dog.
In college you can literally go MONTHS without petting a dog. This is a major crisis in the well-being of many college students' lives. If you don't have a dog, seeing a dog is a random, frantic event. You don't know when a dog will walk around the corner you're turning on. You don't know if a dog will walk into your class. You won't know if you walk into a party, there is an amazing and wonderful possibility that a dog could be lurking in those hallways.
Make friends with your college peers that are responsible enough to have a dog. Sometimes in the midst of your chaotic life, the only cure is to bury your head into a warm dog and just cry. Sometimes you need to pet and dog and see him wag his tail and stick his tongue out and that will warm your heart. Sometimes you need to tell your problems to a dog and he will sit and listen.
If you have the financial means and responsibility to own a dog in college, please do. Not for your sake, but for the thousands of sufferers in college who don't have a dog to lick their stress tears away.
