<p>I have a group of 6 girlfriends from college who I see at least on a yearly basis. We used to get together 2x a year in the beginning, but work, kids etc. makes this impossible now. Now we have a 3-4 day girls weekend once a year and catch up. I also speak with them by phone several times a year as we all live throughout NY state. I count them among my closest friends, even though I see them infrequently. Once we are together it’s like we just saw each other yesterday! lol</p>
<p>Forgot to add we graduated from college over 30 years ago!</p>
<p>Graduated 40 years ago. Still close with friends and have seen or spoken to them all this past year.</p>
<p>yes I am still friends with my college friends. We see each other only once or twice a year, but we care about each other. D1 has made soe great friends and I think she will remain close with some. In addition they are good contacts for what she wants to persue.</p>
<p>Yes, one or two… none from grad school but I was working and going to grad school simultaneously so my friends were closer aligned with my work and my neighborhood than with the uni.</p>
<p>My best friend today and maid of honor at my wedding 35 years ago I met in college. Still see a couple of other friends too.</p>
<p>My son got married a year ago. His best man was his roommate freshman year in college. They roomed blind. Many college friends attended his wedding. One other was also in the wedding party. His wife was in his grad program.</p>
<p>“Yes; I married one of them” - Me too…and he’s my dearest friend ever. That’s so close to home that I might have forgotten to list it 
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<p>There were four of us that roomed together that were especially close. One of them (and her husband from same school too) lived in our neighborhood in the early years after graduation. That was awesome. Darn, we’ve both moved to different states since then. All four families do keep in touch at holidays and occasional reunions.</p>
<p>Most definitely. And a husband as well. :)</p>
<p>No lifelong college friends. I do have about ten HS friends as friends on FB, but only a couple I would socialize with if the opportunity presented itself. I have friends from each place where DH was stationed through his army career.</p>
<p>I met my friend freshman year of college;we lived in the same dorm. We’ve been friends for forty years. We talk on the phone every couple of weeks and spend at least a week together every summer with various family members. We can be a little annoying with forty years of in-jokes.</p>
<p>I keep in touch infrequently with high school, summer camp, and college friends…facebook and xmas card level. Some of them make it onto the “lifelong friends” list as does DH, who I met at a New Student Mixer in grad school. I do think today’s media environment makes it easier to maintain relationships.</p>
<p>Yes- women with the same major as undergrads and some from medical school I have kept in touch with. No need to join a sorority to make good friends. Wisconsin was a great place for college academically and otherwise. We all dispersed and became busy. No one from HS or the dorms- not as much in common with them.</p>
<p>I count myself very lucky in that my best friends are my college freshman year friends that I met over 40 years ago. My closest friend lives within walking distance, our husbands get along very well and we speak to one another at least once a week, just had dinner on Friday night. My other close friend from college and I speak less frequently but see each other several times a year. We are lucky that our husbands also get along well. Both of my d’s now are occasional babysitters for her son and daughter-in-law,they had first baby in October.</p>
<p>Yes! I graduated 20 years ago and my freshman year roommate and I speak almost daily and we live 1000’s of miles apart and from our college. About six of us get together yearly. I keep in touch with others less often but Facebook has been a good way to keep in touch with them. However… I know some very happy, wonderful people (my husband)who enjoyed their college years very much but don’t keep in touch with anyone from college.</p>
<p>Looking forward to my 30-year reunion this weekend. Two friends are flying in Thursday night so we can drive together on Friday. (memories of our senior week road trip?) I think that the cell phone has been an important part of keeping our friendship going in the past ten years. We are able to find more time to chat on the fly, amidst our kids’ activities and jobs. </p>
<p>Lately I find myself hoping that we will have more time for each other when we are empty nesters! I’d love to travel with my best friend again…maybe we can bring our husbands also!</p>
<p>Yes, definitely.</p>
<p>I met my now-husband my Sophomore year.</p>
<p>But beyond that, I made several friends my Freshman year that I still adore and see when I can. We’ve taken vacations together, supported each other through issues with our kids (including disabilities and a child’s death) and issues with our (aging) parents. </p>
<p>I also have quite a number of friends from college that I keep in touch with via FB and Christmas letters. We are friends but not very close ones. </p>
<p>I don’t think distance really has anything to do with it. My friends are scattered all over the US but we find ways to keep in touch and be there for each other. </p>
<p>I value the friendships from high school and college tremendously… those are bonds I see lasting for the rest of my life. There is something about those “firsts” friendships- first year of HS, first year of college, first year with a new baby- that create bonds of steel.</p>
<p>Wow, it sounds like the life-long friendship is a real possibility. I really hope for that sort of relationship for my D. Wish I had it myself! I’m enjoying reading these posts. ;-)</p>
<p>I lived at home and commuted to the local college, so I didn’t make college friends, but kept my high school friends. I only have one person that I met in college that I am still in contact with–my H. </p>
<p>My kids attended residential colleges far from home and they have met friends at school that I think will be friends for life. D1 and a number of her college roommates get together at least once a year in a different city–NY, Chicago, Boston, DC, etc. This year, they are going to the Olympics together!</p>
<p>My closest friends are from my pledge class my freshman year of college. Even when I transferred colleges, we stayed sisters. We have seen each other through weddings, funerals, chemo, divorce, births and unemployment. When my father died I had people fly in from all over to be with me. I have a few friends from my other college, but these women from my sorority have stayed through it all. </p>
<p>I also have very good friends from high school, but we didn’t really reconnect until a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>I have several close friends from high school (30 yrs. ago) and more that I’ve reconnected with from reunions and facebook. </p>
<p>I also have around 5 friends from college that I would still consider lifelong, I’d-do-anything-for friends. One I see weekly; the others are scattered but we keep in touch and get together whenever we’re able. </p>
<p>If I think about it, I feel truly blessed that the friends I made 25-30 years ago are the type of people that I can laugh with, confide in, trust, and enjoy spending time with even after all the years and life events in between.</p>