Friendships in College

In college there is an immediate need to have friends, with there being a lot of different people and a different surrounding everyone is trying to make the best first impression so they will have people to talk to once their parents leave. However, unlike high school where after a hard day of school you go home to your family and you can relax here in college you can not do that because you live with your friends. The people you meet in college are the ones that stick with you through some of the hardest and the best times. Watching you go through every mental breakdown and every high point in your life supporting you through every single set back and achievement. College is the time when you learn about yourself and what friendship actually is. After a hard day of school you do not get to go back to your family for support and with everyone living different lives there is just the friends that you make to make to keep you going. Throughout my first year there have been people that I met the first day that I no longer talk to and with that it was a good run but there will always be temporary people in our lives. The ones who have stayed have honestly saved me and my college career. With the first semester being hard between classes and not knowing a lot of people there was a good chance that I would not be attending my college the second semester or the following year. However, before the beginning of the second semester I was introducted to the best group of people that I have ever met. Making my family at college saved my career, knowing that without them here I would have gone back to my hometown with nothing to show but the acceptance letter into a community college, while all of my other friends from home live their lives. My friends here at college have seen me through my best and worst times and throughout it all have been there to pick me up or pat me on the back. Celebrating holidays together, birthdays and every single day together and still not getting sick of each other. Knowing that you get to wake up to your four best friends right down the hall is something that I would never change and I am more than thankful for. With everyone that I have met at my college there is so much more that I could say besides the thank you I do everyday. Not knowing if I would finish college was such a low point in my life, working so hard to let the simple thing such as not having friends ruin it all. However, these wonderful people came along and changed the way that I look at my college career. I finally know that I am home and I know that the next three years of my life will be the best time I will ever have.