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To My Unexpected Best Friend

I never thought that we'd turn out to be the perfect pair!

Carly Tycia Bandy

Oct 03, 2016

Kennesaw State University

Carly Bandy

To my friend who I never knew would turn out to be my best friend,

We've known each other for years and spent countless moments together. Growing up in the same neighborhood, with our parents being friends, we were often around each other. We were friends but hung out in different friend groups all throughout our middle and high school years. There were countless lunches and shopping trips with our moms. But I had no idea how much of an influence on my life that you would truly make.

Fast forward to freshman year of college, we're neighbors in the dorms and still friends but still haven't realized the impact on each other that we would eventually have. You transferred to another school and we both got caught up in the college life. We didn't talk much and really only saw each other when we came home to visit our moms. Then something happened - our lives both changed from the path that we had originally planned. What we wanted and hoped for was no longer in front of us. But guess what? Everything turned out for the better and now, here we are. Happier than ever doing things that we never imagined.

Who would have thought that when we met in fifth grade that we would end up as roommates in the city and quickly becoming best friends? I sure didn't. I had no idea. But here we are, almost 12 years later and you are one of the greatest friends that I have ever had.

Thank you for the constant laughs and constant encouragement. Thank you for always being ready to grab your wallet and go shopping with me. Thanks for supporting my addiction to shopping. Thanks for having the same expensive taste as me and sharing a wardrobe with me. Thanks for loving food just as much as me and always being willing to go to dinner or to get ice cream. Thanks for listening to my complaining after a long day or about boys that are stupid. Thanks for being there whenever I need you. Thanks for the ugly Snapchats and nights on the town. Thanks for always being my subject for my projects. Thanks for sitting in my room with me and goofing off for hours. Thanks for celebrating my cats birthday with me. But most importantly, thanks for being my best friend that I never expected.

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

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7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

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9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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