College is weird, awesome, stressful and the best days of our lives. It's a chance to meet people from all walks of life and enter into relationships with little to no inhibitions. In college, it isn't about cliques or who you've known the longest, but it's about who you enjoy being around. That is how I've made some of my best friends in my last few years of college -- friends who will last a lifetime. Your college friends are truly special and different from any other friends you will have because you shared this incredibly unique experience with them. There are so many things to thank them for, and here are some of them.
1. Understanding the college struggle.
2. Gaining the "freshman 15" with me.
3. Attending the group fitness classes to combat the freshman 15.
4. Pulling all-nighters together during finals week.
5. Ordering food at absurd times.
6. Pointing me toward the Quizlet for my big exam.
7. Sharing my caffeine dependency.
8. Going with me to the meeting for the organization I am thinking about joining.
9. Staying up late talking about our feelings and our dreams.
10. Carrying me home from a night gone awry (and vice-versa).
11. Grabbing an extra for me any time the university is giving out free stuff.
12. Sending the "I miss you" text on every holiday break.
13. Agreeing to partake in even my dumbest ideas.
14. Never expecting my room or car to be clean.
15. Binge watching all of the same shows.
16. Listening to me complain about, well, everything.
17. Doing group Halloween costumes with me.
18. Helping me realize who seems to have good intentions and who really, really doesn't.
19. Understanding the importance of seeing a dog on campus, and always telling me when there is one.
20. Knowing that every grocery shopping trip requires driving through McDonald's or Tim Horton's on the way home.
21. Our symbiotic system for "covering each other" when one of us doesn't have any cash.
22. Going to concerts with me, especially when it's a band from our preteen years.
23. Random dancing!
24. Being as insecure about your future as I am.
25. Loving me, even though I'm 100 percent a mess.
These are our most unpredictable years, our most *tragic* years, and our most adventurous years, and I couldn't get through them without you guys. So, to my college friends, although these years will inevitably come to an end, our friendship never will. Let's face it, someone who has seen as much as you have can never really be a stranger anyways.
