Personal Experience: Making My Best Friends In College

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Before coming to college I had many people tell me that I would make my best friends in college. Whenever I told anyone that I was going to Kansas State University in the fall they would rant and rave about how much fun I would have. Everyone I talked to told me it would be fun for many different reasons but the one thing that everyone mentioned was the friendships I would form. I became really excited to get to Manhattan and have a bunch of great friends. I had some really good high school friends and they will always be important to me but, I was ready to find out what was so special about college friends. I started to become a little nervous. What if I got to college and I didn’t form any of these incredible friendships? What if it just …show more content…

I knew that joining a sorority would be a good way to make friends and I was excited to be able to proudly wear my letters and be involved in Greek life on campus. After a long, stressful week of recruitment I found my home at Alpha Xi Delta. I had about 50 girls automatically become my sisters. I knew that I would form special, lifelong bonds with my sisters because everyone I knew that was already in a sorority told me I would. Every upperclassman I met during sorority recruitment talked about how special sisterhood was. I thought it may be too good to be true but I was excited for what the future held. Classes began the week following sorority recruitment, I was feeling pretty good about the friendships I was already starting to make within my pledge class but I knew there was more to become involved in other than my sorority. I became involved in some campus organizations and signed up to volunteer for events related to my major. The older girls in my sorority talked about how important it was to put yourself out there and become involved. In no time I was making new friends right and left and I was thrilled. I was doing it. I was making these awesome friendships everyone told me about. But I still had not figured out the secret to having amazing

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