College isn't anything like high school. And yet your freshmen year just seems to be high school transplanted in a new city on a bigger campus and with less rules. But just wait it out, and I promise you the longer you are here, the less and less it appears to be like your drama filled public education.

People are going to be drama filled and selfish no matter where you find yourself. In foreign countries, in the workplace, in your family (especially in families), and in school. Whether that is the 5th grade, high school, or your last year of college, people still have a tendency to suck sometimes. The thing about college, is it teaches you who to value and who to leave behind. We come into college with the same mentality from high school: that the more friends you have, the better. We leave realizing that the more quality friends you have, the better off you will be. 

1. High School Best Friends Forever
This is especially relevant to those of you who attend school in the same state you graduated from high school. These are the friends that you went through college orientation with, took pictures with on your first day in your dorm, and who navigated your first weekend of college parties with. You promise each other that college will only strengthen your high school relationship. Just don't stick so close to each other that you forget to make new friends and find yourselves. 

2. Friends of Proximity
Your dorm friends. The people you eat at the dining hall with. People who have very similar schedules to you. You are friends of convenience and proximity. How this will play out in the rest of your college years is completely based on how much effort both of you are willing to put in. The beginning of your sophomore year will be rocky and awkward and you will have to find time for each other outside of the convenience of being two doors away from each other. 

3. Weekend "Going Out" Friends
These are your fun friends. You don't see each other during the week and you're not really sure if they even go to class. But come Friday night (or even Thursday on some weeks) they are your go to people. Without fail they are down for a good time and seem to know everyone. 

4. Work Friends
If you're really lucky these people will become your core group of friends. If not, they are the people you are nice to in order for them to cover your shifts and fill you in when you miss staff meetings. These coworkers understand what it means to be a busy college student and what it means when you call in "sick" on Saturday morning. Regardless of how close you are with them, they are reliable. Cherish that. 

5. Your Friends
As you make your way through college you find yourself moving up in classes, moving dorm rooms, and sometimes moving in and out of friend groups. This is okay. It's to be expected. You are finding yourself, your likes and dislikes, your lifestyle - and sometimes the people who were there at the beginning might not fit into that by the end. Eventually you begin to realize that it doesn't matter how many friends you have in your group text. It doesn't even matter if you're in a group text. You begin to see who you can call at 2am and who doesn't just answer but shows up at your doorstep. You narrow down your go to people, not just for parties or studying or food, but for life.