<p>Anyone else thinking about leaving their friends behind? I so into starting at dartmouth that sometimes I forget that after all these years together all of my friends will be going our separate ways (even girlfriend, whew bouy):</p>
<p>like a little Zen death and rebirth.</p>
<p>My daughter was the only kid from her H.S. to attend Dartmouth and it was sad for her to leave her H.S. friends behind but she was so excited at the prospect of meeting new friends. She met her first friends on the Dartmouth board that will open up for you in April, then on hte bus going to dimensions, then back on the board, capped off by the DOC trip. </p>
<p>I remember when I went to pick her up they were all hugging and on the verge of tears because they were leaving each other (I said to my self, my goodness, they will see each other next week when to go back for orientation- a week where the freshmen pretty much have the campus to themselves). Ther must be something about being unwashed for 5 days that really bonds people :) The same thing happened at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I guess she will leave Hanover on wednesday as they are being kicked out for spring break.</p>
<p>Yeah it sucks but I can honestly say that I have only gotten closer with my best friends from high school since we graduated. We came back home for breaks, a summer or two, and visited each other on road trips. One came on spring break with my college friends. In fact, many of my high school friends now know my college friends! Its sad, but you won't forget them at all. In fact I am going to Aspen with four of them for spring break!</p>
<p>You often have good news slipper. It's appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks! I think if you have a strong group of friends it totally maintains. Just make sure you make it a habit of hanging out as a group after you graduate during trips home and visit each other at your respective schools. Nothing is more fun than a $80 weekend vacation to a friends campus. (And drag your friends up to Dartmouth for the big weekends, its hard but totally worth it). It will all work out.</p>
<p>My experience with this (just from going to boarding school) has been that I stay in touch with those who I see on breaks, and that they end up being the ones I have the most in common with. my eighth grade class was fairly small (32 kids) and so we were all friends by default, but the ones i am still close with are the ones that i am the most similar to (even if it didn't seem that way in eighth grade)</p>
<p>sometimes i do get the sense though that i am always leaving people, as i left my elementary/middle school friends to go away to school and am now leaving these friends to go to college.
but the ones you stay in touch with are worth it. and so you get to figure out who's worth it.</p>
<p>I think it's weird how when you leave to go to college, your high school relationships (love, friends, or otherwise) usually stay frozen in time. Then when you come home for breaks, it's like how it was back before you left.</p>
<p>So it's probably best to leave high school on a good note with everyone. ;)</p>
<p>Randomly, in some cases I have become much better friends with people in my crew. One of my high school best friends and I weren't that close in high school (we were in the same group but never hung out together) but we both ended up at home for part of our Junior summer. We ended up having a blast and I might live with him and a friend from college next year in DC.</p>
<p>I still keep in touch with my friends through AIM and w/e and we hang out during breaks...it's all good.</p>
<p>i leave my friends every year because of moving, some i keep contact with, but some are just lost. so i don't really mind. i can adapt in a blink of an eye lol</p>
<p>I'm going far far away, most of my friends are shooting for Vandy. So, while they are preparing to spend another 4 yrs, I am starting to pull away. It is sad, but I knew that this would happen.</p>
<p>On a different note. I should not be on CC, I have to turn in a final outline for the senior thesis to my AP english teacher on tuesday. Must research!</p>
<p>i am definitly going to miss the friends of mine that are going to be staying on the west coast for school, but there are atleast a few who will be back east with me, so that makes it a little bit easier...</p>