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Old 01-15-2008, 03:07 PM   #16
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It's senior year, and I'm still close with two of my best friends from high school--we don't talk as often as we did at the beginning of college, since we're all busy with job hunting and serious relationships and spending time with our college friends before graduation, but we catch up on the phone every month or so and hang out when we can visit or when we're at our parents' houses.

Freshman and sophomore years, we still talked every week or two and hung out constantly over breaks. Then phone call frequency decreased because we got busier, went abroad, had a new girlfriend/boyfriend, etc. Then we stopped coming home for most of the summer and winter breaks (jobs, research, year round leases...), so that meant seeing one another a lot less.

Still, we make the time when we can and definitely care about one another as much as we ever did, even though we're not as involved in eachother's every-day lives. And that might change again--I and one of them are both planning on moving to the same neighborhood (not somewhere either of us grew up or went to school, so it's a funny coincidence) after graduation!
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Old 05-05-2008, 01:55 PM   #17
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bump. any others with first hand experience??
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Old 05-05-2008, 02:14 PM   #18
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Try watching Dawson's Creek for a good example of what happens to a group of friends after leaving high school :P
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Old 05-05-2008, 05:36 PM   #19
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why should we? high school friends are crap
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Old 05-05-2008, 09:59 PM   #20
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I had a large group of friends in high school (around 50-60), after I graduated I realized that most of these weren't actually close friends. I am still very close to my friends that I still want to be friends with. Don't worry about after you graduate, because you will continue to see the people you want to see, and distance yourself from the people you don't want to see. Trust me it is much much better.
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Old 05-05-2008, 10:25 PM   #21
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Been 5 years since I graduated HS and now I'm still friends with about 4 people from then. These people I've known since grade school, but I usually just hang out with them when the one comes from Iraq and there is a decent amount of partying to go on. Otherwise they are quite boring and I don't really hang out with them.

To give you perspective though, the few times I go to a local bar and see old people I know, I usually don't hang out with them, because I don't have anything to say to them; but I'm a bit antisocial, so what do I know? Only real reason I'd talk to them is if I'd be interested in catching up with them.
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Old 05-05-2008, 10:39 PM   #22
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by jr and sr year of HS i had a very tight core group of 14 people (7 guys, 7 girls).. one year later im very happy to say that im just as close and even closer with some of them. most of us go to different colleges along the east coast ranging from NC to Boston. next week (our first week back) most of us and some of our other friends (but not as close) from HS are renting a house in upstate NY for 4 days. i went home this weekend to go see a concert with a couple of my best friends.

we were acutally talking in the car how we think its crazy when people say they arent close to their HS friends anymore. maybe its just us but our bond i would like to think is vitually indestrusticable. we all love college and have friends and fun there.. but when we come back its like nothings ever changed. i jsut dont understand how people can say theyre closer with people in 9 months than people you were close with for 4+ years.

my cousin (who is a HS sr right now) had a really good comment on this. she said everyone has a group of HS friends and college friends, and you can be close to both of them. but there will always be one roup that you think of being your best friends and people you would rather be with. for me, i think it will always be them.

besides for them i tlak to like 2 other people while im at school. then at home we always have parties with our old "affiliates" from HS. wow.. this was really long and hard to understand. guess its hard to explain it to other people. hahah we do awlays say "outsiders" jsut dont understand
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Old 05-06-2008, 09:44 AM   #23
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I'm still good friends with my junior high ones and don't even go to the same college or high school. I don't have much friends in high school because I'm not too up for socializing in a new school environment.
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