<p>i've noticed many people reverting back to their high school friends after they're done with college, and they pretty much lose contact/no longer care. has anyone done this? or if they go to grad school, same thing, they chill with their grad school people, waiting to finish so they can go hang with their high school buddies again.</p>
<p>are college friends just not going to ever match the relationships you had with people in high school?</p>
<p>Not for me. I'm much closer to my college friends - I really haven't stayed in touch with most of my hs friends at all.</p>
<p>I've kept a few of my HS friends but for the most part, I'm going to keep in contact with my college friends for the rest of my life. The two people I hang out with most from HS will also be contacts for a long, long time.</p>
<p>make new friends but keept the old,
for one is silver, and the other is gold </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I'm only a sophomore in college, but I feel like I'm much closer with my friends I have now than I am with friends from high school except for my best friend from high school. I feel like most of my "friends" from high school were just friends of convenience, i.e. people I only hung out with because they were there. Most of them had very different beliefs and/or interests from me, but my college friends and I share lots of the same views or at least the same interests.</p>
<p>i already don't keep in touch with most of my high school people and it's only the 3rd week. I think my best friend from high school will always be my best friend though. I talk to her everyday.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore. My HS friends are still my best friends. I don't see that changing, either.</p>
<p>My friends from HS have all known each other for a long time. We were all really tight and continue to be. The internet has really helped us keep in touch, make plans for when we come back, etc. Sure, we have a college friend here and there that we really get to know, but most of our summers, breaks, etc are spent with guys we've known for ages.</p>
<p>I know of many people coming back for homecoming who have graduated with me/before me and still see their HS friends as their true friends.</p>
<p>Yeah, I basically don't talk to anyone from HS anymore. I'm soooooo much closer with my college friends.</p>
<p>Most of my college friends are my high school friends at this point, heh. I'm trying to make new ones too though.</p>
<p>Yeah unfortunately I don't really talk to my HS friends that much, besides like my 2-3 closest friends except like on facebook.</p>
<p>I've got friends at my college, but my best friends are two people from my HS. They're actually the only ones I still talk to from HS.</p>
<p>i've never hard of that.........i've only heard of college friendships lasting</p>
<p>Just from my experience: </p>
<p>I graduated with a class of 76. We had all known each other for 12 years, I really was good friends with a lot of them. By the end of high school, I had a group of friends that I always spent time with, and I was friendly with just about everyone in my class. </p>
<p>Fast forward a few years to junior year of college. It's mostly my college friends I'm close to now. I have high school friends, and I do talk to them, on occasion, but that's it. We don't go out of our way to see each other, and out of the friends I had, I talk to maybe about 5 on a somewhat regular basis. That's actually more than what most people experience. I've just gotten to the point now where I know which friends from high school I really want to keep in touch with, and which ones I really don't wish to lose.</p>
<p>I'm only four weeks into college, but I already don't talk to people from high school unless they say something to me first (on IM, Facebook, text/phone, etc)...and then I'm only replying to them out of politeness. </p>
<p>I never really fit in at my old town. I had tons of friends, was an officer in all the clubs, had something to do every weekend, and was princess at prom...but yeah...I'm not even sure how all of that happened considering how different I am compared to 99% of the girls there. I won't even go into that, though.</p>
<p>Anyway, I like the friends I'm beginning to make at my university <em>way</em> more than I liked any of my high school friends. That sounds horrible, but gah...before I got here I really had no idea that there were so many people like me. </p>
<p>And yeah, nobody from my town goes to my school other than me. It's perfect.</p>
<p>I *<strong><em>ing hated high school. My friends from HS will be friends forever, but the rest of them can *</em></strong>ing burn.</p>
<p>For me, some of my best friends from high school I've known since elementary school, so our bond is stronger than anything I could make in college(though I think that can change.)</p>
<p>Wow neverborn, lol that's some strong sentiment there. I think we are roughly divided even in this thread, but for me personally the case has been that as college progresses, my very close high school friends and I have grown closer, via internet, phone, seeing eachother during breaks, etc. College has been just another story that we can share with one another. Without a doubt it's because we've known eachother since we were 11, lived in the same neighborhood even, and these kind of friendships rarely come along, so they become really special. College is comparatively brief --only 4 years or less, but at the same, you are no longer living at home so you are probably spending a great deal of time with your college friends as well, and hopefully when you leave college that connection will still be there. But haven't you met anyone in college when it's like, instantly upon a few conversations you immediately sort of click and quickly become very good friends? That's happened for me in college with my close friends. I really value the close friends I have here and will surely keep in touch with them always, but still it would it take time for these friendships to reach the same level as my childhood friendships. I think in time, they will. If both people are willing to maintain the friendship, it won't matter that you no longer get to see one another as often, or even that you're in entirely different states altogether!</p>
<p>I have yet to make the transition from having acquaintances to actual friends here at college. It will probably take a long time because I personally take awhile to really connect with anyone. So my friends from high school are a core group of really awesome people, but I know some of them are already completely immersed in their respective college scenes and haven't made a whole lot of effort to contact hs friends. I guess that's what's necessary anyway for a freshman.</p>