<p>I agree with everyone else-you'll never find a perfect friend.</p>
<p>I've noticed that with all my friends, "opposites attract" really applies. We have some things where we're EXACTLY the same, and then we have some things where we talk about it and it's like "Why am I friends with you?" It's interesting.</p>
<p>I have friends where I can talk about the stupidest stuff, sometimes offensive. And then I have friends that if I talked about that kind of stuff with, they'd probably never talk to me again.</p>
<p>I think the solution is to have many friends, and do some things with some of them, and other things with the others...
(Though I don't seem to have any friends who play NetHack. Which makes me sad. But then again, that's what Internet people are for.)</p>
<p>I actually agree with fizix. I've got theater friends and complab friends and physics friends, and though I'd like to have one person who I could talk to about everything, it's sort of nice to be able to go from group to group and know what I'm getting myself into.</p>
<p>For instance, I know all of my complab friends will totally get it when I start talking about some internet game (coughcoughFlashPortal) or YouTube video or obscure Japanese TV show. And I know my theater friends will completely understand when I go on about a movie or TV show or music or piece of artwork. And I know my physics friends will help me out on the problem set and be equally celebratory when we finally finish it. Yeah, there's some crossover, but I like the separation, because I know that when I talk to my theater friends, I don't have to think about physics, and when I go to the complab I don't have to talk about super-competitive college stuff.</p>
<p>I like my friends. :) </p>
<p>But don't worry - you'll find a niche in college. And until then, there's CC.</p>
<p>P.S. - 100th post! Sweet.</p>
<p>yeah i sorta know what you mean.. like some of my friends in ib are too cautious and i have to watch what i say around them (i.e. pot, alcohol that kinda stuff) and then my friends outside of ib that i party with and stuff, when it comes to school they don't understand how hard my curriculum is and will offer lame responses to how stressed i am like "just don't do the assignment.."..blah</p>
<p>kinda off topic but is anyone else really afraid that they won't make friends in college? i'm kinda shy..so i'm worried about that =(</p>
<p>I have one small group of friends I've been close to for years. Two are extremely academic (very top of the class) and the other two (myself included) are bright yet not as academically disciplined (and, ha, both ADD). The social between us, however, isn't any different.
Cheesily enough, I would almost describe us as Disney-like. We share the dirty little secrets... are always hosting movie/video game nights... play up lots of silly traditions... But academics, debating, ect never take a back seat. It's sort of like the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>I think it's a miracle I've run across such people. I'm worried I won't be as lucky when I leave for college and am forced to put myself back onto the market.</p>
<p>It's funny how everyone's grouping their friends into 'academic' and 'nonacademic' with the former generally loving to complain about grades and not do much else and the latter just being very silly and easily amused...is there really this HUGE divide in HS or are you guys just imagining things? And then there's this 'inbetween' group where you have the best of both worlds. It's just...huh. Very weird way of categorizing people. I really can't imagine why the best students, in your experience, would also be so obsessive about it to the point of not doing much else and 'hard to approach emotionally,' coz I've found that for this last trait it's more the OPPOSITE way around for me.</p>
<p>Yau, you and your friends sound like so much fun, I'm jealous! xP</p>
<p>My "friends" (the people I have been associated with since kindergarten) are MEAN!!! I don't know where to turn, I don't know anyone else, and I'm leaving school soon, so I don't have much time. We have a lot in common, but they don't give me the same respect they did as recently as sophomore year, the respect these people gave me back in kindergarten. They understand being stressed over grades, which makes them easy to talk to, but they don't understand planning a life after high school or my political views.</p>
<p>YES. I have this problem.</p>
<p>I have a group of friends. And I guess I've become more critical of other people. I don't talk behind their backs or anything, but I've just been unsatisfied. One of my friends became a lesbian and now she is in a weird abusive relationship with another girl in the group (I'm not against homosexuality--I'm liberal), but she and I aren't good friends like we used to be and when those two are together, it feels a bit third-wheel.</p>
<p>Then I get annoyed randomly in other ways by my group of friends.</p>
<p>I think I'm just waiting for college when I find the perfect friend who will be weird with me (nobody in my group is weird when I am weird. they don't really get me, but i couldn't care less) and be able to let loose. Oh, and he/she must love Grey's Anatomy and/or The Office.</p>
<p>i have no friends. =/</p>
<p>no 'real' friends that is. </p>
<p>maybe i'll find some in college; yay.</p>
<p>lol, this has nothing to do with the thread, but someone just pulled the "Knock-Knock: Interrupting Cow" joke on me yesterday.</p>
<p>"became a lesbian"... You don't really BECOME a lesbian... but any abusive relationship is wrong. </p>
<p>Don't wait until college to find the "perfect" friend group, because you're never going to. Just keep hanging out with different people and you'll find your niche :].</p>