In life, you meet all types of people that come in to your life. Some of them slip away in the midst of you living your life and there are some that end up staying through the best along with the worst moments in your life. They’re what I would call the stayers.

The ones that stay and bring you tissues and extra medicine when you have the worst case of allergies. The one that comes to your room at 4 a.m. because you’re crying over the stress of balancing out your life. The one that will pick you up in the middle of the night to come pick you up when you decide to go off making the mistakes you naturally make in college. The ones that will eventually end up being your bridesmaids at your wedding ten years from now.

Coming into college, I never had the intention of meeting people that will change my life forever. I came to college, only focusing to concentrate on my studies and not really being open minded about anything else. Personally, I was not set on having anything else in my life other than a few friends and a stable life of constant eating, sleeping, and studying, which is what my life has been revolved around since the start.

I never expected the long and restless nights of surprises (good and bad), the late night adventures, the irresponsible decisions made, the sweet hut study dates and the unspoken awe about how much our lives had changed since we met each other.

Through these moments, not only do you realize how crazy college is overall, with everyone trying to find themselves and how crazy we seem to be, trying to find our way through the craziness we call life.

Having the blessing of meeting the types of people who become your family in college is what really gets you going through the roughest times. It’s the family that you choose from the hundreds of people you meet. You eat together, take naps together, cry, laugh, and just sit and do nothing together. Then at that point, you can’t remember how you ever lived without them to begin with. Those are luckily what I ended up finding when I came to college. It was one of those friendships that you knew that would last forever.