Blog 5: Friendships

Making friends, you have read a little bit about this in the first blog but let’s continue on with this subject. Making friends that will last a lifetime is a good chunk of the whole college experience. Something to take into consideration is the kind of people you want to surround yourself with. College has a lot of different people, and their true personalities come out especially when they don’t have their parents with them. Of course, in college some people go a little more wild then others. Personally, I am not the wild kind of person and because of that I tend to have friends that are like me. Unfortunately attending such a small school, it seems like everyone knows everyone’s business even if it isn’t important business. I wish it wasn’t this way, but sometimes it feels like high school never ends. I had an issue with my roommate and since we hung out in the same friend group some of the friends in the group decided they didn’t want to associate with me anymore. At first it was a little annoying to go from being friends to then being isolated from the group. After giving myself some reflection time, this isolation turned out to be the best thing for me. There are still so many people on this campus that I can get to know and being un-added from that friend group was probably the best thing that happened to me. I started distancing myself from that group and finding other friends that I liked to hang out with. To my surprise (sarcasm) my roommate who stayed with those same friends, now has so many more issues then she ever imagined. They all became too close too fast and everyone started getting on each other’s’ nerves. In college it seems like you need the breaks to go home and reflect on the friends you have made. Currently thanksgiving break is coming up and everyone is so ready to go home. I can’t wait to go home and get a little bit of sanity from the stressful week. If your friends are you cause of stress, its not worth it. You should try to make other friends that keep you in a positive mindset. Give out what you want to receive. Drama isn’t worth your time. There is so much to do on a college campus you just need to find out where.