Dear Friends that I have just met this past semester,
When it finally came the time to decide where to go to college my senior year of high school, out of my group of friends, I was the only one who decided to go to Tarleton. I was scared because I didn't think I was going to have any friends. I was rooming with three girls that I didn't know, had never met, and to top it all off I was four hours away from home.
Never in a million years did I imagine that I would've made the group of friends I have in just a short semester of college that I know will last a lifetime. We are always on the same page of thoughts, ideas, and weird inside jokes, and honestly if anyone from the outside heard what we were talking about they would probably think we were crazy. There have been countless laughs and so many times we just completely understood each other when no one else would.
One of the best things about having a group of friends that you're absolutely inseparable from is that you're never alone if you don't want to be. There is always someone to go get breakfast with after an early 8 a.m. class, or go get french fries with at 2 a.m., even though all of you are trying a new diet thing where you don't eat fries. When you just don't feel like being alone there is always a door dead bolted so you can just walk on in like it's your own room, and make yourself at home.
From staying up late watching the same movie we watched the two nights before, laying in bed and talking across the room for hours until the room goes quiet and we fall asleep, or driving four hours away to go hiking and explore a new place, there is never a dull moment. Never once since I have gotten to college have I felt like there was no one there to listen, or hang out with, and never have I felt like I didn't have a support system. Being away from home for the first time is a scary thing, but with this group of friends, it has made Tarleton, and Stephenville my home away from home with the best friends anyone could have.
Here's to more semesters, more late nights, new memories, and countless adventures.
