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Open Letter To My Forever Friends

To the ones I won't be as close with.

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Open Letter To My Forever Friends
Andrea Ferreira

Everyone's on a different journey of life throughout college. Some will transfer, intern out of state, move residence halls and graduate at the end of the semester. I have a handful of friends who started out as my neighbors this year, and will be ending the year across campus, across the city, across the state and across the country. Here's a thank you to those I met this semester.

Although you barely knew me the first week of the semester, you decided to be part of my support system early on. You knew a little bit about me, but nowhere near enough to know how to handle me or what I was going through. You probably had no idea what to do when I came up to you crying when I had no idea who else to turn to. Yet, you put your game face on and did a really great job of being my rock.

You always stayed up with me. It didn't matter how early our class was the following morning, we were always awake and it was always a great time. Watching Ellen DeGeneres videos or dumb vines, reading the insane things people post on Twitter, Facebook, Collegefessions or YikYak just won't be the same without you this semester.

You saw how much I struggled with my sleep schedule and took it upon yourself to be my alarm clock. I have the ability to sleep through everything, including the four alarms I set each morning. You usually woke me up for classes, but also to eat, to say hello and for a million dumb reasons that always annoyed me at the time, but now I'm going to miss.

Who doesn't love food? No one I know. I cannot appreciate enough that you would get food with me at 2 p.m. or 2 a.m. Nothing will replace running to get food at 1:45 a.m., 15 minutes before closing or all the excessive amounts of Texas Roadhouse we inhaled.

You decided to make my home away from home-home. It was decided extremely early on that we'd be a family, and it was the greatest thing I could have experienced my first semester. We had our fights and our disagreements, but at the end of the day, the love I have for you is unreal. You introduced me to all your friends on campus, off campus and from high school, and I did the same. It was honestly beautiful we could intermingle our friends and still have such a fun time.

I think the one thing I'm going to miss the most is all the unnecessary drives. I mean, we saw them as necessary at the time, but we probably could have saved money on gas and saved the Earth with a lot less pollution. Being on a college campus that doesn't have much to do, we drove everywhere: the mall, hometowns, to have better restaurant options, to fix relationships and to have a sleepover in the comfort of a house and not a dorm room.

This isn't a goodbye because our group chats have recent texts in them. My call history still has your contact name there. My notification bar still shows your Snapchat name. Our inside jokes are in our memories and all the videos of us doing things that aren't advisable (playing football while our RA was gone) are still in our camera rolls. I'm so thankful we both made the same decision on a college, otherwise, I never would have met you. I never would have had such a blast throughout the semester. Where ever your life endeavors take you, just know that you will always have a friend in me. Blessed to have met you all.

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