Friends as a Transfer?

Transfer Students
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<p>Hi everybody,</p>

<p>In about a month and a half I'm going to start hearing back from schools and have to make the decision about whether to stay or transfer. Up until very very recently I was solidly on the side of transferring, but now I think I might be having second thoughts. I still have countless issues with my current school (academic, athletic, location, and extracurricular) BUT in the last few months I have made a pretty cool group of friends and I'm upset to leave them and I'm worried that I won't find the same thing if I leave. Also I don't want to get "lured" into forgetting about the fact that, up until pretty much this past February (when I finalized my applications), I was completely miserable (in tears mostly every day, counting down until breaks, just a total wreck), and I can't help thinking that what has turned around was that I just stopped caring because I keep telling myself "I can do this because in X days I'm leaving and not coming back and then I'll be happy"</p>

<p>So I guess my question is a big one with a few little parts. The big question is this: how much can friends "make up for"?</p>

<p>-If you transferred and left your friends, did you regret it? Did you have trouble making a new group of friends at your new school?</p>

<p>-If you decided to stay because of your friends, did you regret it? Do you feel like you put too much pressure on your friends to make a crappy situation better, and when it came down to it having them couldn't really make up for being generally unhappy with your school?</p>

<p>Basically just your standard "wah I just want them to like me" thread.</p>

<p>Thanks for your help! Hope everyone's app processes and decisions (and waiting games!) are going well!</p>

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<p>I am making less friends intentionally to avoid that thought, I know how hard it is to leave friends. I would say people are everywhere if you can make friends in your current college then you can make them in where you want to transfer.</p>

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<p>I’ve made a couple of friends at CC but we are all transferring to different places, so I’m looking forward to transferring because of this.</p>

4

<p>If I get accepted anywhere, I will probably meet up with some CC people</p>

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<p>I had that problem (am transfering again), really though I’ve found two things. One is if you visit every so often you stay friends, also chatting phone, facebook, e-mail, playing online games, just staying in the loop works. Also the fact you have new seperate experinces to share, when you visit, can make the friendship in a way even closer. </p>

<p>Don’t forget you can have more than one circle of friends. It takes a bit more work, but if you have a car, aren’t too far away, and enough of them are from the area, you can set up reuniones pretty often and easy. Have a few beers, play cards, shoot the s***t as it were.</p>