Do you have a best friend? Are you a loner?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>up to about the 8th grade I live in philly and I had two best friends, well all 3 of us were. Then I moved to a philly suburb where most of the population was white and the prep crowd which I hated. I had a group to handout with during school but i didn’t really make close friends. Thankfully I moved to LA 4 months later (still in the 8th grade). There I made 3-5 close friends to hang out with and we were friends till my junior year in HS. We just stopped hanging out because 2 of them moved away and I moved further away and I stopped eating lunch at school so I never see them anymore.</p>

<p>I mostly hangout with my brother and we happen to be twins so that worked out well. He has a lot of close friends outside of our school and tons of people he knows at school but we mostly hangout when we’re at school. I hate high school honestly - I know a lot of people and am friendly with them in class but I never see them outside of class. I can’t wait to get away from the cliques and all that. It’s kind of hard to make friends in high school when everyone else know each other from elementary school. </p>

<p>honestly I wish I was back in philly - I still talk to my best friends from philly and went to visit a couple years back. and i’m just really not a socal person. (socal not social)</p>

22

<p>What do you guys do when there’s a group assignment in a class where you’re not friends with anyone? This is a rather awkward predicament.</p>

23

<p>I’ll lose all my friends when I go to the university.</p>

24

<p>well they say you meet your life long friends at college…</p>

25

<p>Most people have at least one or two life long friends from high school.</p>

26

<p>i certainly wont. I still have friends from middle school (i moved accross the country after 8th grade) but i will miss very few people from my hs. Only person I’ll really miss is one of my teachers.</p>

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<p>I have two best friends since about 1st grade. Unfortunately one of them moved away summer before freshman year, then i had to move summer before junior year (last summer). But i’ve gotten by, have some close friends here, and made a few networks, sadly a lot of them are seniors and won’t be here next year… T.T</p>

28

<p>no best friend here. i have some friends, but they are closer to other people than they are to me. i’m okay with it for now, but a lot of times i wonder (and hope that) things will change in college.</p>

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<p>I had 2 best friends and 5 close friends up till last year but then I moved to a different country so although we keep in touch it’s not the same anymore. At my new school…well it’s nice enough :)</p>

30

<p>Well, I go to a small school and know pretty all of the 10th-12th graders by first and last name, so we’re all aquaintances.</p>

31

<p>I’ll take life-long friends (I think) but it’s not that coveted “best” friend relationship.</p>

32

<p>Umm…I’m a pretty weird person…but so are most of my friends so it works out :b I hang out with allll of my band geeks and I’m a VERY social person. I can carry a conversation with just about anyone.</p>

<p>I’m NOT a loner AT ALL…but I do have moments that I like to have time to just think or sit in my room and do nothing…but these moments only last around 30 minutes :]</p>

<p>However, I do not have A best friend…I have MANY best friends. =) I’m content.</p>

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<p>A loner? Actually, I wouldn’t consider myself a loner. I have a few good friends that I hang out w/ on a daily basis, but I can’t say that I trust them with my entire life (probably b/c I can’t trust anybody in general since I’m too cynical lol). But I admit, to a certain extent, I intentionally distance myself from my friends especially when I feel we’re getting too close so I kinda diffuse things, but most of them by now know that it expected from me.</p>

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<p>I used to have a best friend but when we got to high school we kind of grew apart. Since then I realize that I enjoy being by myself sometimes. I have a lot of associates but no close close friends and I prefer it that way.</p>

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<p>I have two best friends, sort of. One of them recently got a girlfriend so he hasn’t been talking to me much. The other one is in college and I don’t get to see her often. Other than that, I do have a group of 4-5 really close friends at school.</p>

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<p>Loner through and through. I have a few friends, but to be honest I’ve been scorned and hated by my school for wanting to do more academically.</p>

37

<p>No best friends. A few close friends here and there but that’s it.</p>

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<p>I’ve had a best friend since middle school, two camp friends that I’d consider best friends but in a different way, a few close girl friends that I talk to all the time but I imagine I’ll lose touch with eventually, a few close guy friends, and a pretty snug social circle. And my boyfriend, but he’s in a different group.</p>

<p>Sometimes it’s a tad awkward though because the group dynamic is different than the way I would actually structure my friends–about half of my good friends are in the group, and the other half aren’t. </p>

<p>Honestly though, all you really need is a best friend or a few close confidants.</p>