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Your College Friends Might Not Be Your 'Day Ones,' But They Are Your Real Ones

I met my best friends thanks to SHSU.

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Your College Friends Might Not Be Your 'Day Ones,' But They Are Your Real Ones
Julissa Garza

Everyone says you find your real friends in high school, but I don’t think that’s true.

College is definitely where you meet real friends. In college, you’re finding who you are and what you want out of life. In college, you’re able to meet people with the same interests and aspirations as you. It’s important to make friends with people who want the same things you do and can push you to get there. You need people who will push you towards your goal and you push them towards theirs.

During my time at Sam Houston, I’ve met my best friends, and they are incredible.

Most of my friends are Mass Communication majors with different concentrations, but we are so much alike. We all aspire to make a difference in this world by using our voice through journalism and broadcast production.

We’re all aspiring to be news, entertainment, sports, and radio broadcasters. We all help each other grow and learn. We help each other with news packages, podcasts, editing, and even what to text back to the person we’re crushing on. We’re able to understand each other's stress, happiness and every other emotion in between.

When you have a supportive group of friends, you’re able to succeed even more than you thought you could.

Thanks to my friends, I’ve grown so much as a journalist and learned so much from them. They push me to better myself, and I’m able to help them.

Who you hang around reflects who you are. You want friends who are kind, hard-working, trusting, honest, and are an all around good person. I’m thankful that I have friends who have all these qualities and much more.

We always have fun together, whether it be in our organization meetings, filming, editing, doing homework, and acting like fools on game nights and in the car. There’s never a dull moment with my pals, and I couldn’t imagine doing college without them by my side.

Tiara always has us dying laughing, Mackailyn is so dramatic that it gives us life, James is the quiet precious one, Mikaela is so sweet and sassy, and Lizzie is the life of the party who is obsessed with Shrek.

Thank you Sam Houston State for allowing me to meet such wonderful people who I know will be my friends for a lifetime. Thank you to my friends for being the people they are and helping me grow.

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