College can go one or two ways: it can be a nightmare or a dream come true. For me, college is definitely a place I’d much rather be all thanks to the girls that make college feel like my home away from home. I can’t express how much I appreciate the friendship between all of us that will last a lifetime and the bond I have made with you girls.

To start off, thank you for helping me learn more about myself and who I am everyday. Throughout the crazy random dance parties that we have while listening to the ultimate middle school throwbacks (which occurs quite often), to being studious in the library, to super intense bonding talks in our beds about life... I have not only learned about you, but I have learned about myself. You have been there through it all. From screaming at the top of my lungs when getting a good grade or getting that text first from a crush, you have screamed in excitement with me. You have also been there to listen to me vent for hours about things that didn’t matter two days later, but you were there in a heartbeat, ready to listen.

Thank you for being brutally honest when I need you to be and always making sure I have an equal balance of good decisions—as well as bad ones—being made. By bad decisions, I mean staying out until the crack of dawn on a Saturday night knowing we have so much homework to do the next day, but always managing to get it done one way or another.

Thank for you confiding in me and letting me confide in you. Trust is something that doesn’t come easy, but I know I can easily tell you anything without being judged. You guys are the first people I go to text when something so pointless and stupid occurs during the day, but I know you’ll get a kick out of it and somehow find it funny.

Thank you for being there to listen to me cry about stupid boys and then being down to indulge in an $9 cup of fro-yo and not regretting a single scoop of it. Also, being there to eat Calio’s at 2:30 a.m. and then saying that our diet will start tomorrow… I guess that “tomorrow” hasn’t come quite yet.

Thank you for being the reason I have a countdown on my phone during winter break for coming back to school. I can’t sleep the night before, for I know the second I get out of my car, I will be smothered with hugs and an overall genuine feeling of excitement. I actually get pumped to drive seven hours to see you people—who would’ve thought?!

Lastly, thank you for becoming my other halves who I can count on for anything and everything at any time. When we graduate from college, I know I will look back on these years as the best years of my life due to these girls that started off simply as roommates and now are people I can’t go an hour without talking to. You guys are simply amazing and awesome in every aspect, and my life would not be nearly as interesting without you guys in it.