An open letter to my college best friends,

The freshman expectation; being best friends with your roommate and the girls in your hall. Let me burst your bubble real quick, this doesn’t normally happen. This dream is harshly crushed for many girls when they get to college.

For me, things turned out differently. I went into my freshman year nervous about making friends and figuring out where I belonged. The best thing was when I realized I wouldn’t have to look far. Not many people become best friends with their roommate but I am lucky enough to say I am the exception; without her I truly don’t think I could’ve gotten through my first month here as easily as I did. To make it all even better, on move in day when my roommate and I were “scoping out potential friends” we met a girl who lives just down the hall from us. Needless to say we have been inseparable ever since.

Since I’ve been here I’ve realized the difference between high school and college friends is quite simple. For a lot of us in high school our friends were who we grew up with, who we were around all the time, being in the same town and going to the same school for 13 years. In college, you are free to choose who you would like to be friends with, people who ultimately push you to become a better version of yourself.

Without these two, the long nights in the library, movie nights, parties, crying sessions, late night talks, future road trips, wouldn’t be the same. I’ve been told in college you will learn who you are and what you want to become. I didn’t realize that on top of that I would find people who made this experience ultimately that much better. So here’s to our freshman year, that will be full of the best memories we can make and also here’s to the next four years growing into who we are, together.