You might assume my college best friends live on my floor or are from my home state. If you did make that assumption, you would be wrong. Somehow this Texas girl found this crazy, cool group of girls hailing from St. Louis and Atlanta living on the 6th floor of Crosby, the dorm down the street and around the corner. Disclaimer: one of them is actually an honorary Sixth Floor Sweetheart, but in all reality we spend more time there than in our own dorms, just ask the CAs. I didn’t meet them at orientation or on Facebook/Instagram or even in class, I met most of them in the backseat of a mutual friend’s car on the way to the Square during our first weekend on campus. I didn’t meet my honorary Sixth Floor Sweetheart, who ironically lives in my building, until we were at a Wiz Khalifa concert a week later. I thought to myself, it is week two of college and I already have a group of friends, someone pinch me I must be dreaming. Well if that was a dream, I’m still living in it.
These girls are the type of girls you pray that you will meet when you go to college. They are smart, outgoing, hilarious, and sweeter than Mississippi sweet tea. In the few months we have known each other we have laughed, cried, “studied”, had random dance parties, eaten way too much Taco Bell, Cook Out, Papa John’s and anything else that is open after midnight, and have literally become each other’s sisters. If you ever see a group of 5 girls taking a frat lap in the middle of the afternoon while blasting Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, that’s us. I kid you not, we get separation anxiety if one of us goes home for the weekend or if one of us doesn’t show up for a meal at the Union. Despite our hectic schedules that never seem to line up thanks to our 5 different sorority houses and majors, we still make time for each other.
High quality friends are not always easy to come by. We are told the more friends we have the happier we will be. The truth is you can be standing in a room full of “friends” and be miserable because the few people you actually want to be with aren’t there. College is all about meeting new people, but it is also about forming relationships that will last a lifetime. I like to think that I am truly living my best life with the four girls I have by my side. This is not to say I haven’t made friends with people in my dorm, in my classes and in my pledge class, because trust me it feels like every day I meet someone new on campus. But in terms of my ride-or-dies, mis amigas, my ~toasted rav~ ladies, I’ve got a pretty snazzy group going. Ladies, I can’t thank you enough for being my friends and I am so ready to take on the next 4 years with y’all.