2015 was pretty cool because I made a lot of new friends, rekindled some old
friendships, decided where I wanted to go to college, got to watch my favorite
sports team win a World Series, celebrated in the streets of Kansas City with
100,000 strangers, got to go to Florida, and survived the first semester of
senior year. Hopefully 2016 will be even better, although I'll have to say goodbye to all the friends I've made over
the past few years. However, I also
get to go on a cruise with some of my best friends over spring break, complete
my high school career, become the
first one on either side of my family to go to college out of Kansas, go to school in a new place, surrounded
by new faces, in a whole new structure. As nervous and anxious as I am for the
upcoming year, I am equally excited for the new opportunities that I will be
faced with.
My most important goal for the new-year is to
maintain my current friendships and branch out and make new ones. The reason
that I wish to accomplish this goal is because it is easy to lose contact with
people as you go your separate ways in college, and not always easy to make new
friends in college right off the bat. A major obstacle standing in the way of
this goal is that I do not know anyone else that is going to the same college
as I am since all of my friends are
going to K-State, Kansas, or Arkansas on
top of I not knowing anyone else who is going to Oklahoma State. This will
make it harder to maintain my current friendships since I would not be seeing these people nearly as often as I see
them now without not knowing anybody
else. To overcome these obstacles, I plan to join a fraternity to meet people
early on and make early friendships. I plan to visit my other friends at their
respective colleges if I get the chance and to text them every so often. I will
measure my success by seeing who I am still friends with by the end of the year
and how many new friendships I make in college. The benefits I expect to reach
are making/maintaining friendships that will last the course of my life.
You are super smart (and lucky) to do the last big trip with your friends over Spring Break. This will make a difference in strengthening your bond as you all go your separate ways. If you can, try and do this every couple of years- and you will be more likely to keep your friends.
ReplyDeleteYou are going to have such a great time in Oklahoma!