<p>^ I’m sorry to hear that! Ugh, it brings back memories of a generation ago for me. </p>
<p>I’m pretty confident college will likely be very positively different for you. As a general rule it seems all those strong divisions between “highschool tribes” seemed to blur or disappear in college. Some of it is developmental maturity, some is the fact that there are just so many more people to choose from to find your crowd (and not even be able to notice ‘another crowd’ to compare to), and also because kids self-select to go to college and self-select to particular ones. It’s all so different when no one is vying for social place or grappling so much with ‘who am I?’, and you can just ‘find your people’ and getting to just be whoever you really find yourself being.</p>