<p>Do most people meet their best college friend in a dorm, in a class, in a club, or where?</p>
<p>What about future partners…obviously not a dorm room I would suppose…but where?</p>
<p>At a frat party - playing beer pong.</p>
<p>In the mirror.</p>
<p>Waiting to meet with our academic advisor–and that was almost 40 years ago!</p>
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<p>Best college friend or future partner?</p>
<p>Facebook. No lie. We’re just sketchy like that.</p>
<p>(best college friend) Through one of my ex-bf. They were good friends and then I met him and met her through him. We all swing dance together. </p>
<p>I don’t have the best track record with boys but the one mentioned above: through swing dancing, like I said, because my friend Laura dragged me one time and I’ve been hooked ever since. The other one, through various other friends.</p>
<p>First day of class, 2nd class freshman year. I was just sitting there looking over my schedule when she sat in the seat next to me. I noticed her Cubs shirt, she noticed my Cardinals visor, and she said, “are you seriously a Cardinals fan?” to which i had to say “Yes” and within minutes we were making plans for lunch. </p>
<p>Sophomore year now, and she’s one of my roommates!</p>
<p>37 years ago, down the hall in the dorm. In a dorm of mostly Wisconsin kids he was from LA and I was from NJ. Instant friendship and still best friends.</p>
<p>Most people I know met their closest friends in the dorm or in an EC, while partners tended to be from dorms, EC’s, parties, or mutual friends (most often the latter two, I’d guess).</p>
<p>My very best friend was from my freshman year hallway, as was my main “circle” of friends. I also made some very close friends from my main EC (where by “main” I mean “most time-consuming”), which was a cappella. I met a few guys through mutual friends and through classes, but my boyfriend was also from a cappella. </p>
<p>It’s probably worth noting that I went to a single-sex school in a consortium, so meetings were often atypical.</p>
<p>I first met my best friend during Customs Week. Turned out that we lived in the same dorm and took two classes together during the first semester.</p>
<p>And what’s the rate of high school best friend —> best friend throughout college</p>
<p>10%…</p>
<p>Hmm…so even your childhood best friend who you’ve known your whole life and you see every break usually gets replaced by better friends you’ve known for 4 years or less? </p>
<p>Not that discussing it here will change anything, just wondering what people think.</p>
<p>Darvit, this often happens. Those friends with whom you’ve grown up are sometimes outgrown in college, often because your interests at 10, 11, 12, 13 aren’t the same as at 16, 17 or 18–yet you keep those connections because it’s easier and more comfortable than rocking the boat. At age 50-something, I have totally lost touch with the 2 girls to whom I was practically attached at the hip in high school, but I am still very close to the two girls who were my best friends in college.</p>
<p>Hm alright…usually when I read “outgrown” I think of growing more than someone else, so then I think, if you and your friend both go to good schools, have similar goals etc then will your relationship change that much? I just find it sad to think of people naturally going their separate ways forever.</p>
<p>you can definitely still have good friends at other schools. But the fact is the people you hang out with the vast majority of the time will be people who you go to school with, so naturally you develop connections with them.</p>
<p>Before I transferred, at the beach. Here, I’d have to say I’m really close to my roommate.</p>
<p>In an EC. Now we’re roommates and are planning to live with each other in NYC.</p>
<p>By far college best friend > high school best friend.</p>
<p>I met mine in class.
It probably helps that in my major, there’s about…60-100 people tops, so you generally get stuck with the same people for your last two years. You really get to know everyone pretty well :)</p>