Applying to colleges at the start of senior year took months of planning, stressing, essay-writing, and submitting. Though it was tempting to apply to similar schools as your friends, reality set in once acceptances started coming back. Odds are you and your friend group were together for at least half of high school, if not for the majority of it. The mere thought of you all going off in your own directions and not seeing each other at least 5 days a week was sad and scary. College without your best friends? How was that going to work?

In the end, things worked out and everyone was either ecstatic with their decision or began feeling satisfied about it. Making plans to visit each other at school was part of all major conversations during the summer before your first year of college. Yet once school started and everyone was scattered around the country, the lack of practicality of visiting one another might have come to light.

But then you figure it out: either someone's break overlaps with someone else's school week, or you wait until the start of your second year when it takes less time to settle in. Ahh! You're finally all together, not in your hometown or at your (most likely now-dreaded) high school. There's so much to do and so little time, since you're probably only together for a short weekend. But there are so many reasons why visiting your friend at college is an awesome idea.

1. You don't have to wait until you're all home to be reunited.

2. You get to meet their college friends!

3. You realize how different your own colleges may be (great way to start appreciating or hating your own dining hall food).

4. You can party together again.

5. You're probably visiting a new city!

6. You get to relish in the freedom of college together.

7. It's like a weekend-long sleepover!

8. You get to neglect your responsibilities for as long as you're together.

9. If you're at a D1 school, you get to experience A LOT of school spirit.

10. You can all be your ridiculous selves again around each other.

11. You get to spend time with your best friends.