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The Importance Of Your College Best Friends

This one goes out to my OG 1023 dawgs and the honorary dawgs that came afterwards.

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The Importance Of Your College Best Friends

Emilia Rodriguez-Vera

My first year at UCLA has been far from easy.

I struggled a lot in various aspects of my life and it was very hard for me to deal with them as I was away from my family and my friends from back home. I cried a lot and I coped with things in the worst ways possible. I recognize that I did have some unhealthy coping mechanisms and if it wasn't for my friends I made in college, I feel like I would have been more lost in life and end up making the same mistakes rather than learn from them.

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Student Life

The End Of The Year Struggle Every College Student Faces

You want to be done but you don't want to leave.

Pennsylvania State University

The End Of The Year Struggle Every College Student Faces

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By the end of April or beginning of May, every college student has completely shut down. We are dragging ourselves to classes, fighting to pull grades up, and pulling all-nighters to study for finals. By this time in the semester, we are completely exhausted and worn out and it's hard to just get through the day. The bags under our eyes are bigger than the ones on our backs, coffee is the only thing pumping through our veins, and our brains are mush. We want nothing more than the next couple weeks to just fly by and be over already. We want all of our finals behind us and to actually get some sleep. We want the end of finals, but we don't want the end of the semester.

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Relationships

A Letter to my Best Friends that go to the Rival School

It's a love hate relationship..

Purdue University

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A Letter to my Best Friends that go to the Rival School

Charlotte Russell

To my Indiana University Hoosiers,

The concept of rivalry is something that we are taught from a very young age. You're not supposed to like your opponent. You're supposed to despise them with every ounce of your being. When it comes to competition, we're taught that our ultimate goal is to come out on top and in order to reach the goal of winning. We can't subject ourselves to the weakness of friendships with the enemies. In my own life, I've been taught that the IU vs. Purdue rivalry has a certain level of importance. I was born a boilermaker and I followed in the footsteps of my great-grandparents, grandparents, uncles, and parents by deciding to become an official boilermaker last fall. I've had the hatred for IU implanted into my brain and ever since I was young I knew that IU was the enemy.

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If Your Best Friend Carries These 10 Traits, You Best Keep Them Around Forever

There are definitely more than 10 but let's just talk about the BEST ones.

University of Maine

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If Your Best Friend Carries These 10 Traits, You Best Keep Them Around Forever

I have learned over my four years of undergraduate at the University of Maine, that these are the legit friends, that I am going to have forever no matter how far I go. These are the people who really give a shit about me, worry and support me. I've heard people say, if you've been friends with someone for seven years they will be your friends forever, but I don't buy it.

My three-year friends in college are my forever friends and have the best traits of what a best friend is and should be. We may not always see eye to eye and we definitely fight but always come back together. I would do anything for them and I know they would do anything for me.

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Student Life

5 Things You Understand If Your College Best Friends Are Your People

"I'm not sure how to be alone" - me every single day in college.

University of Michigan

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5 Things You Understand If Your College Best Friends Are Your People

Halley Luby

Friends in college become a sort of family. Being alone and trying to act grown up, even though we all know you're not, is scary. Having my best friends by my side to help me through it has personally helped me more than I can even describe. You live together, eat together, and absolutely everything else together.

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Student Life

44 Things I've Learned Since Starting College At Michigan State University

Every MSU student has a different college experience and perception of Spartan nation; this is mine.

Michigan State University

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College has been one of the most life-changing and craziest experiences of my life. I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started college at Michigan State University. I went from a bright-eyed eager freshman who knew nothing about Spartan nation or its sports teams and thought she knew what she wanted in life to a girl who changed her major six times sophomore year and wouldn't miss an MSU baseball game for the world.

There are so many things I wish I knew before starting college at MSU and so many things I wish I would have done differently, but everything happens for a reason I guess and I'm happy I got a chance to figure everything out as I worked my way up the grade scale, even if it was difficult and confusing at times.

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This one goes out to my OG 1023 dawgs and the honorary dawgs that came afterwards.

My first year at UCLA has been far from easy.

You want to be done but you don't want to leave.

It's a love hate relationship..

There are definitely more than 10 but let's just talk about the BEST ones.

1. Supportive

2. Will tell you how it is

3. Make you laugh (even if your humor is kind of dark)

4. Help you

5. Are more excited than you are when something big happens

6. Shows their appreciation for you & your friendship

7. Willing to compromise

8. You can be gone for less than a day, and already miss each other

9. Adventurous

10. Love

"I'm not sure how to be alone" - me every single day in college.

1. If you spend more than 20 minutes apart, you aren’t really sure what to do with yourself

2. You eat every single meal together

3. You know exactly what to say to make your friends laugh

4. You forgive all of each other’s annoying/weird/dramatic traits

5. You know exactly how crazy each other are, and yet you still choose to live together

Every MSU student has a different college experience and perception of Spartan nation; this is mine.

1. Graduating college on time is overrated, do it on your own time

2. The MSU Dairy Store has THE BEST ice cream around

3. Even when they have a losing season, you'll always cheer for the football team

4. It's okay if you don't meet your lifelong friends

5. You don't have to join Greek life to have an amazing college experience; there are plenty of clubs you can join where you'll meet people with similar interests

6. It's going to be the best and worst experience of your life

7. It's okay if you don't have everything figured out

8. Enjoy college because once it's over, adulthood sets in and there's no going back

9. Talk to your professors and get to know them; they'll write you a killer reference letter when you need it

10. Make friends in your classes; they'll come in handy when you can't make it to class

11. The dining halls rarely change their menus; the food is delicious but it gets old very quickly

12. Taking a picture with Sparty never gets old

13. Living off-campus isn't as cool as you think—cooking your own food SUCKS

14. Make an effort to keep in touch with people; campus is huge and if you don't make an effort, you may never see that person again (literally)

15. If you're looking for something to do, go to a sporting event; aside from football, basketball and hockey, they're all free!

16. You'll get so many free t-shirts you won't know where to store them

17. Say goodbye to the toxic people in your life and surround yourself with people who love you and make you happy

18. The Douglas J Aveda Institute on Grand River Ave. gives free blowouts; TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS

19. Frat parties get old, fast

20. Meeting your future husband is unlikely

21. You will lose contact with a majority of your high school best friends and that's okay; it means you're all growing up and figuring out who you want to be

22. You will change your mind, A LOT

23. Utilize the MSU Career Center in the Student Services building; from tips to writing a killer resume to internships you can apply for, they're there to help you

24. Utilize your advisor; they'll help you set up your schedule, keep you out of pointless classes and help you figure out your next move

25. No one cares what you wear to class; honestly, they don't even care if you show up

26. You're on your own now which means only you can hold yourself accountable

27. These next four (or five in my case) years may define your college years, but they won't define the rest of your life

28. Don't compare yourself to anyone else; doing this will destroy your confidence

29. Take time to relax and do something you enjoy; you'll have a mental breakdown if you don't

30. Guys are as immature as they were in high school

31. Rent your textbooks, never buy them

32. Don't get your textbooks until after the first day of class; you may not even need them

33. Skipping class seems like no big deal but it will only hurt your grade in the end; you're paying for it anyway so you might as well go

34. That being said, sometimes you need a "me" day so skipping class is appropriate, as long as it doesn't become a regular thing

35. Student discounts are EVERYWHERE; use them every chance you get

36. Laptop stickers and backpack pins are cool

37. Failing a test or a class isn't the end of the world, as long as it doesn't become a regular thing

38. For the last 18 years of your life, you haven't made a lot of decisions on your own; now that you're in college, your decisions are yours and your life is yours; live a life that makes you happy

39. Only you can make you happy; it's up to you to live a life you've always dreamed of

40. If you can afford it, study abroad, even if only for a week; the world is huge and it's waiting to be explored

41. Take care of yourself; limit the all-nighters, get enough sleep, eat healthy when you can, exercise even if it means just walking to class, take a "me day when you need it and don't be too harsh on yourself; you're doing the best you can

42. Buy a good pair of snow boots, an umbrella and a rain coat; Michigan weather is unpredictable

43. You'll bleed green and white for the rest of your life

44. Write it all down. I've never been a journal person myself, but I wish I had written about all of the crazy memories from freshmen year and everything I've learned since starting college, but maybe it's not too late and this is a good place to start?

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