Finding friends after graduation? Do you lose your college friends?

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I’m an International Student, second year, in Canada and I finally(!) managed to get some good friends I can do stuff with on the weekends. I’m like soo relieved.

When I graduate in three years, I will be again friendless. The problem
is that I’m not Canadian and there will be a time when my study visa expires (after graduation) and I will have to go back to my own country. There’s nothing to hope for or change it, because it’s the immigration law.

So when I have to go back to Switzerland, all my friends here will still be here in Canada and I will be alone once again! Making friends with Swiss people? Umm yeah, forget it. Most of us are a bit socially awkward, I know I am and most people from my horrible hometown. It’s just a much more rude social environment than Canada/USA. But like I said, I can’t stay here in Can so I wanted to ask how can you make friends after college, if you have to live on another continent without your college friends? Or do you all/do most people who graduated still have their college friends for life? Does it basically mean alone forever if not? Thank you

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You may or may not have your college friends for life. Depends on the relationships and your commitments to one another to remain in contact. You will make friends wherever you end up in life, at work, at local places that you frequent, your apartment building or your neighborhood, church, etc. Making friends is a never ending process if you are open to making friends. Life is not as discrete as you describe it.

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I have stayed in touch with a few college friends via FB…just visited one this year (30 years after we met) and will see the other one at our reunion.

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I’ve kept in touch with a handful – monthly calls/texts, but we rarely see each other. I have about another 5-10 on FB who now are just FB “likes” and occasional comments. The three closest among my college friends stood up at my wedding last year.