You know when you graduate high school and you swear to your group of BFFs that you'll stay as close knit as you currently are forever. You cry and hold each other and recite in unison, "together forever, never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart." As Lifetime-film-worthy as this scene is, by the beginning of your sophomore year of college, some of those girlfriends whom you were attached at the hip to in high school are now just casual acquaintances that you'll run into at birthday or graduation parties, giving each other crash-course-catch-ups on each other's lives.

The reality is that college is like Pandora's Box, it opens up realms of people and personalities you never thought could have possibly existed. You will meet people from all walks of life. It is imperative to choose your friends carefully, especially when you're a female. Now don't rip me to pieces, I'm not being sexist, it's just that girls tend to form attachments quicker than boys. This being said, here is brief lesson of the five general types of female college students, just to give you a basic template of what to expect.

The Innocent

Practically everyone considers themselves adults by the time they get to college. This is ignorant state of mind will quickly be challenged when you stumble upon a college female who has never done anything even remotely sexual, let alone been kissed. This type of person may make you feel like the biggest slut in history, challenging the likes of Marilyn Monroe. But I promise you that the minute a piece of man willing to put up with the challenge comes along, she will challenge every perception you've developed of her. Leaving you proud and somewhat scared of her capabilities that you had so naively underestimated.

The Serial Romantic

Everyone has a friend who perches themselves in the campus' Starbucks and keeps constant eyes out for a buff guy with a nice butt. She'll try her hardest to make eye contact and share a smile with him, she'll then wail to her friends about how she's convinced he's the one. This is what I like the call the Serial Romantic. The girl who wades through guys like jellyfish on the Jersey Shore. Although her efforts may seem exhaustive and begin to annoy, the best bet would be to let her do what she wants, involve yourself as little as possible, and above all, keep her AWAY from your male friends.

The Overachiever

A 4.0 GPA sounds achievable until you find yourself buried under six classes, two jobs, a relationship and a social life. You may be happy with a 3.6 or 3.8 GPA. But no matter how close you come to a 4.0, you will always live in the shadow of the overachieving friend. The girl who takes seven classes and works three jobs, has a super cute boyfriend, plays rec league sports, always manages to have hair and eyebrows on point, is getting totally lit every weekend and gets just a little closer to that 4.0 than you. Fear not, these people receive the same degree as you. It's a freaking diploma, not a medal.

The Punk Rock Chick

Yeah I listen to Green Day, it's on my burned CD along with Luke Bryan and Drake, I'm a fan of punk rock. You are incorrect, because as much as you enjoy a good head-banging to "Jesus of Suburbia," the girl with blue pigtails and inch-long wings on her eyeliner and who wears ripped fishnets as every attire will make you look like a massive pansy on the punk rock front. She'll be a weird hybrid of the 1990's and a decade of the 2000's that has yet to occur, and she'll fill your life with laughter and wittiness, but most importantly...good music.

Yourself

College really is a time to discover yourself. High school is only a preview, the earliest of buds on the flower of you. As you bloom, you grow away from the dirt of your growth, of your inception. This dirt will be high school, the people you knew, the dreams you had, the plans you made. Everything changes when you're faced with your life on the horizon and adulthood becomes a reality. Just like a flower, stay in touch with your roots, but grow and bloom far from them.