As I sit here on my computer trying to think of a topic for my article, I sip on a Dunkin' Iced Coffee, nibble on a half moon cookie, watch Pokemon on Netflix and Snapchat my best friend. I was struggling to think of what to write about until my best friend told me to write about being far away from all of our closest friends. I thought that would be a brilliant idea, since I talk to my friends from college practically every hour of the day. So instead of focusing on how much I miss them, I wanted to write on how it feels to be so far away from them.

The initial feeling of being away from your best friends for three months sucks. You feel like you are missing a piece of you because you just spend the last nine months together stressing out over everything, eating anything and doing nothing but having fun. I forget that there is another world outside of the Elmira bubble, especially because I see the same six people every single day no matter what. We feel like summer is going to be the worst time alive because our 'squad' is not together. We all promise to skype or facetime every single day so its like they never left. However, we quickly ditch this idea when we remember that being away from each other is not that bad.

Then comes a couple weeks where we start to relax and do not text each other as much, since we are all starting to get back into the swing of working and seeing other friends. We still miss each other, but we realize how quickly the summer is moving and do not worry as much about not seeing each other. We send the occasional 'how is summer' text and share good news. We keep in touch, but not as much because we are all too busy. Alongside this comes the occasional moment when you forget how far away your friends live, so you go to ask if they want to get food and realize they live five hours away. The distance is the worst part, because you can't drop what you're doing and go hang out with them.

The last part of the long-distance friendship over the summer realness is the last couple of weeks before you move back in and see each other. We start to freak out about seeing each other again, and the fact that you are gonna tear it up with them again starts to set in. The anticipation for these few weeks kills me. I am starting to head into these few weeks, since I will be back with my male best friend for RA training. I get the countdown texts until we get to see each other again and I am already excited for the looks I get when I rearrange my room 20 times before the end of the first week of class. I love my friends so much and I miss them all the time during the summer. Even though it is only three months, I count down to the day when we are all reunited and get to be our ratchet selves who scream at the top of our lungs across campus, jam out to Phil Collins and Genesis, and use any money we had on our meal plans for Starbucks. I love you all!! Shout out to Jon, Emily, Emily, Lydia, Sam and Rachael for being bad ass friends.