{"id":236,"date":"2013-03-12T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/admissions\/?p=236"},"modified":"2019-01-04T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:57:57","slug":"make-new-friends-but-keep-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/admissions\/blog\/make-new-friends-but-keep-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Make New Friends but Keep the Old"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A picture of me and my friends from our senior year; so many memories!<\/p><\/div>\n

College life is busy (or at least mine is anyway) and while that fact makes the life of a college student challenging and fun, it can also make it hard to maintain relationships with people from high school.\u00a0 Even with all of the technology that allows for such easy communication, the hardest part is finding the time to keep in touch. I know this sad fact only too well.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, I realized that I hadn\u2019t talked to my best friends from high school in weeks so I made a point to write them all emails and just find out how they were doing. \u00a0For each of them, so much has happened since we last saw each other for a day during Winter Break and I feel awful for not trying harder to stay connected to their lives.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thing, though, when you are in high school you think that you\u2019ll always have that same close friendship that you shared but it doesn\u2019t quite work like that once the graduation caps have been tossed.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll spend one last summer together, hanging out nearly every day and staying up late, laughing and talking about the past and about the future until it all blends together at 2am in a temporal kaleidoscope.<\/p>\n

But then in the fall, instead of returning to familiar hallways, you all go your separate ways and start leading separate lives and when you don\u2019t see each other every day at school anymore and you are excited about starting your new life and making new friends it can be difficult to maintain that familiarity with each other\u2019s personal lives.<\/p>\n

This is what happened to me when I began college: my friends went to different colleges, Hannah to UW-Eau Claire; Lizzy to UW-La Crosse and now Mid-state Technical College; Bomie attended UN-Las Vegas but she\u2019s currently studying abroad in China, while I went to Winona State.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d see snatches of their lives on Facebook, snapshots of my friends with so many people I didn\u2019t know and places I\u2019d never been. On rare occasions Hannah, Lizzy and I would all be home at the same time and would catch up over lunch together, but it wasn\u2019t the same sharing of experiences.\u00a0 It was filling each other in on things we\u2019d missed.<\/p>\n

Now I am not saying that it is impossible to keep your old friends from high school, quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably all heard that relationships take work and it\u2019s no different for friendships; you can keep your high school friends but you will have to work harder at it. Technology IS a great way to stay in touch, whether you text, email, post on Facebook, or Skype. And there is always the possibility for face-to-face meetings too whether that is over school breaks or visit each other’s college for a weekend.<\/p>\n

Last year, I visited Hannah in Eau Claire and we had a lot of fun. I was also able to meet her new friends which made me feel more connected to her new life.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, as your new life in college begins it doesn\u2019t mean your old friendships have to end but they will change and you will need to put more effort into them, as I have been reminded again only too recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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