<p>Lol. Soccersarah, HOLLA @ my post G.</p>
<p>Sounds like me, minus the "elite" bit. Personally I would say the best advice for you would be to keep on being her friend, that way no matter what happens at the college that she goes to, she'll know that she at least has friends back home.</p>
<p>It's true that everyone shows up at college looking to make a new set of friends and be really social and all that, but in my experience I found that that only lasted the first 2 months or so. After that, groups of friends start to get fairly well-formed and by the end of freshmen year, no one is looking for new friends anymore. So if you're the type of person to develop super close friendships with people in a matter of weeks, this works well for you. If it takes you several months instead like it takes me, it will not work well for you. I had a few casual friends my freshmen year that I lost contact with when I switched majors, and to top it off my old friends from home who go to nearby colleges have decided to ditch me as well.</p>
<p>College does not 'force' you to make friends to nearly the same extent that high school does, though. In high school at least, you had the issues of where to sit at lunch and who to be partners with for group projects to deal with - it forces you to interact in some way. In college you can pretty much never speak a word to any other student the whole four years and no one will notice. I guess it depends on whether you're shy because of high school cliqueyness and classmates' preconceived notions of you, or whether you're shy simply because you don't like talking to people.</p>
<p>It took me a long time to make friends my first year (that I just finished). I didn't have ANY close friends first semester and I thought something was wrong with me. Finally second semester I started making friends and I felt so much better. It only happened by chance, though. A girl I met through my women's self defense class 1st semester ran into me on campus 2nd semester and invited me to go swing dancing with her one friday night. I almost didn't go (because I'm clumsy as hell) but I finally decided to and it was the best decision I've made thus far. She and I became really close friends, and I met lots of other people through swing dancing of which I am really close now with 4 of them and friendly with many more. </p>
<p>Haha, so I guess my advice to you guys would be to take chances and do something you wouldn't normally do haha. It definitely worked out for the much better for me.</p>
<p>I have to agree. Holla is likely a mispelling of Hola, which is indeed Spanish. Maybe Holla is a word in Spanglish?</p>
<p>Holla = holler</p>
<p>wowww.. mactech i hope ur kidding.. otherwise... yeah.</p>
<p>I agree with what someone said about popularity. Usually when someone popular peaks in high school and goes off to college they get a huge reality check that they don't rule the school anymore. They start to miss their "glory days" back in high school. Not only that, but making good friends in high school was quite difficult for me. I admit it I did have a hard time making good friends at my school because I didn't find anyone that can connect with me on my level. I found 2 extremes in my high school: the partiers that flunked and the nerds that hate to party. Personally, I was in the middle I can party just as hard and study even harder. College is going to be so much better social wise because everyone wants to be there and you're going to find so many people just like you. This is why you should go to the best college you can in this country because you'll be able to find so many amazing people that truly care about you. ;D</p>