College Friendships

When I first came to college my freshman year, I was so worried about making new friends. I had always heard that the friends you made the first weekend of college you most likely will not stay friends with, so I was convinced anyone I met I wouldn't stay friends with. But little did I know, I was going to meet my now-roommate Anna. We met during a walking tour of Ada, went to Starbucks afterwards and we have been friends ever since. Everyone else that I met Welcome Weekend I'm not friends with anymore, but me and Anna have stayed friends through many different friend groups. 

One of my favorite memories with her and our a few of our other friends was a night one weekend freshman year when we went to Chick-Fil-A for supper, got ice cream from Dairy B's in Ada and then had a dance party in the Kerscher Stadium parking lot while watching the sunset. It's crazy how such a random night can turn into one of the best memories. Anna and I were then roommates sophomore year and this year, but unfortunately she is graduating this winter, so she won't be here next semester.


One of the best things about college is that you are always meeting new people, so every semester you have a chance to make new best friends. My sophomore year, I decided to join the Club Softball team here at ONU and I ended up meeting one of my best friends. We first became friends when we were put in right field together during practice. I'm a third baseman and she's a second baseman, so we bonded over how much we hated playing in the outfield. I'd heard many people talk about how they met someone and instantly clicked and that was Megan and I. Over the next three weeks we were inseparable and knew pretty much everything about one another.

We have been friends for almost a year now, but it feels like I have known her forever. A lot of people even call us twins. Not only do we look somewhat alike, but we also like and don't like a lot of the same things. We both think cheese is one of the best foods, we both love High School Musical and the list could keep going on. It's so crazy to think back to freshman year and know that we had probably crossed paths at some point, but we didn't know each other and we didn't know that we would be best friends now. Some people think of soulmates in relationship form, but she showed me soulmates can come in friendships too.


It's so crazy to think about all of the choices we all made leading up to where we are right now. If any one of us would have chosen to go to a different college, we wouldn't all be friends right now. College friendships can be some of the weirdest friendships because they are so random, but they end up being some of the best ones too.

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  1. Lucie ArnottSeptember 26, 2024 at 12:27 AM

    It's insane to see how quickly we all find our people in college. I am still super close with the girls I met my first day on campus here. Navigating through college together really does create the strongest bonds.

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  2. Liz GeslerSeptember 26, 2024 at 12:28 AM

    I love these stories about how you met your best friends here at college! I can relate, as I am still friends with the people I met freshman and sophomore year, and even this semester, as a senior, I am creating and strengthening more friendships on campus every week! I think that while creating friends on campus usually happens in random, unexplainable ways, those turn out to be the best kind of friendships. Making memories and building friendships with the people you met in classes, clubs, and random extracurricular activities is solely what college is all about, besides from getting a degree of course.

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  3. Shannon McKenzieSeptember 26, 2024 at 10:07 AM

    I can definitely relate here! I met my roommate (one of my now best friends) on a Facebook group before coming to campus, but ever since then we have found so many things that are similar to each other its crazy! She is my steady rock and at the end of this school year will make it 5 years of being roommates together. And ever since I changed my major from Pharmacy to Pharm Biz, I have since found even more friends! It's honestly solidified my reasoning for switching my major, as I have found so many people who are just like me. What's funny though is there was one year where I randomly deciding to take a casting and mold making art class as a gen ed, and although I ended up hating that class I still ending up finding another one of my best friends in there! I think we bonded over our hate for that class lol.

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  4. Megan PickensDecember 5, 2024 at 9:54 AM

    This post was so sweet. I am so glad that we found each other, even if it was later in our time at college. You are the reason I believe in platonic soulmates, and the only person I can blast High School Musical in the car with. Thank you for being the best person I could've became friends with.

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