To my college friend group,
I was really nervous about making friends in college. I have pretty much had the same friend group since middle school, and it was the first time that we all were really going to be splitting up and heading to different areas of not only our state, but the East Coast. I’ve never had a hard time making friends, but I knew that college would be totally different. Luckily, I pretty quickly found a great group of friends in which I have found my voices of reason, the older brother and sister I’ve never had, and most importantly, my best friends.
I don’t even know how we all came about being friends. I know that one day, I was sitting on the floor in our typical hangout room, all listening to Vampire Weekend and doing our respective assignments when I just realized how lucky I am to have you guys in my life. I don’t know where else I could find a group of completely amazing people who really just...get me.
We’ve all had our ups and downs this year. We all have spent nights curled up with ice cream watching Grey’s when we got our hearts broken and our emotions were complete shit shows. We’ve had little arguments here and there, especially when we get into Nerf gun wars and hit each other with the bullets. But mostly, I’ll remember all of our inside jokes and the weekend when we all really reaffirmed our friendship: Halloween. I’ll never forget all taking Macroeconomics and totally struggling together. I feel so completely comfortable with you, and without you, my freshman year would have been very different.
I am so excited that I get to continue being friends together next year by living together. It will certainly be interesting living with my best friends, but I’m so excited to see where it takes our friendship.
I am going to miss you all so much this summer as we split up and go back to our respective roots all over the East Coast. But know this, the dog pictures, memes, and group messages will not end just because we aren’t together daily. But really, thank you so much for everything this year and making me realize how important it is to have a great group of friends.
