<p>How often do you commute back home?
How do you get there? is there a big carpool network?</p>
<p>I want to stay in very close touch with my life back in the Bay Area, and I know it will be tough as an engineering major, just want some input from current students.</p>
<p>I use to drive back home. But I couldn’t stand the traffic in the afternoon. I have been stuck on the 405 for at least an hour at times. Now I buy an airline ticket early and pay the same price as you would’ve for gas. plus more time in the bay!</p>
<p>would you say you kept your relationships with your friends in Norcal? or have you kind of drifted away from them and you just kind of stop by to say hi?</p>
<p>anyone else with more input?</p>
<p>You’ve got to move on. Your high school life might have been great, but the college experience is about forming new relationships with people you live with and go to class with. It’s just too difficult to try and maintain the best of both worlds if you’re 350 miles away. </p>
<p>I very rarely fly back up to Norcal during the school year, perhaps once a quarter at most, if at all. While I keep in touch with some of my closest old friends on Facebook and hang out with them during the breaks, it’s nowhere near what we did in high school. And I’m fine with that. I’ve met amazing people at UCLA and I’ve got no regrets about coming here, and I’m sure my friends will say the same about Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Davis, and so on.</p>
<p>I don’t think your situation is specifically for norcal, but rather college in general. I agree for the most part with TheHutt, you’re going to make new relationships with people here and that’s a good thing. I was actually afraid if I went to school with all my best friends that I wouldn’t branch out and meet new people.</p>
<p>IMO though, try not to go home every weekend…I knew people like that my first year and they didn’t form any meaningful friendships since they clung to their home/old friends the whole time. its ok to keep in touch, but don’t let that stop you from meeting new people.</p>
<p>with that said, you’re not going to lose your friendships from back home if you keep in touch…the people you still talk to will be the ones that matter anyway. personally, I hang with my good friends over breaks and we just continue off like nothing happened. I have friends from norcal who are still really good friends with their buddy at Berkeley so don’t worry too much about it and enjoy college!</p>
<p>videodima,</p>
<p>There’s this interesting effect that keeps you in touch with your close high school friends. I am also from Norcal, and I can still say some of my best friends are still the same ones I had since I left high school. However, my pool of friends has only grown. A lot of students moving a non-commutable distance from their homes always fear they will “replace” their friends back home. This is definitely never the case! Try not to go home so much and don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>They aren’t my high school friends, they are my friends I have known since I was 3 years old. thanks guys, really good input/advice</p>