<p>I went to a boarding school (it offered a residential life similar to colleges') and found out that I drifted from the friends I made during the first few weeks? </p>
<p>It seems as though a lot of people I know from the school have same experience, so (I know this sounds bad) being really social at the beginning doesn't have that fervor every other incoming freshman is touting.</p>
<p>No, I'm not friends with anyone I met when I first started college.</p>
<p>none of them.</p>
<p>My S is still friends with many of the kids he met at the beginning of his freshman year, but he has made many more friends in addition to them.</p>
<p>It's been 5 years and I'm still good friends with quite a few of them. Then again, I went to a small school (1000 students) so I think that's a factor because you always see the same people over and over again.</p>
<p>I'll be a junior this year and still hang out with the friends I met during the first week of freshman year. The girl I met the very first day of school is hands down my best friend--we lived together this last year (not this coming year, for various reasons), we go out to a movie and ice cream once a week, we try to go to as many sports as possible together, we party together, she's basically with me more than anyone else. Maybe even more than my boyfriend. </p>
<p>I've made other friends and I don't talk to everyone from freshman year, but a decent number. A lot of the people I hang out with now are people I work with at my jobs, because we have intramural teams made up of staff only, staff parties, and at one of my jobs we spend 40+ hours a week together and travel together, so we're all pretty close. </p>
<p>I rarely talk to people from high school anymore though.</p>
<p>i'm actually still friends with girls i met at orientation..</p>
<p>I'll be a junior / possible senior. I met most of my friends first semester of freshman year -- lived with them and studied abroad with them. Though I'm not really friends with the people I met during orientation week anymore (fortunately).</p>
<p>I just returned from studying abroad. I haven't seen some of my friends all year, and some of them going abroad next semester. I did meet new people from my school whilst abroad but I don't know if I'll see them during the schoolyear. I also won't see my best friend until 2009, and together we had sort of alienated ourselves from our other friends for quite some time... (Note: bad idea.) So I'm not sure where a lot of my friendships stand.</p>
<p>I am, but most of the people I bet at the beginning of college were:
1) my roommates.
2) the people who live on my hall.
3) the people who live in my building.
4) the people who are taking the same sorts of classes I am.</p>
<p>So I continue to see them, naturally. I'm not friends with the people I met like, for one minute during orientation and the first week at meals.</p>
<p>My best friends were those that I met during the first few weeks of college. Granted, I met them during summer school before freshman year began and we all are similarly-minded engineers =P</p>
<p>not at all.. and im only going to be a sophomore. stopped hanging out with those people in my hall by before thanksgiving. met lots of new awesome people second semester. kinda screwed my living arrangement for next year but im excited nonetheless. i can honestly say i am not friends with ANY of the people i met at the very beginning. didnt meet most of my good friends until february.. except for my roomie who i met in jan casue my 1st one transferred</p>
<p>Nope, I'm not, but I still am glad I had the experience of socializing with people during the new student orientation period. Whether you stay friends with them later on is sort of secondary to the experience itself, IMO.</p>
<p>I was in a fraternity, so yes, I am still friends (seven years later) with the people I met the day I moved in.</p>
<p>But other than those guys (which is obviously a different set since we all lived in the chapter house for at least two years), I do have a couple friends that I still keep in contact with that I met within the first two weeks of school. There are also people that I had my very first college class with who I see frequently (partly because they're also at my medical school), and a couple of others from that class who I enjoy catching up with I run into them at the bars...</p>
<p>My main group of friends was established within the first few weeks of school and we're still close friends. I'm a rising sophomore.</p>
<p>I am but I make a new close set of friends every year.</p>
<p>Not exclusively, but yes. They aren't my best friends now, but we're still good friends.</p>