So here's the thing: I have my friends at home who have known me since middle school, but when we moved to college, we went our separate ways. I moved to Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia while my overachiever friends applied to Yale, Davidson and Brown. It's not that I couldn't get in to those schools. I just didn't want to go there. And the application process was too much work.

Anyway, I moved to GCSU and became best friends with two people--Matt and Brent. I always had a huge group of friends that all knew each other, so transitioning to having two people that I did everything with was a different experience.

Brent is your typical movie buff, so the first two months I knew him, our conversations centered about movies because he didn't know what else to talk about.
Matt is your intense but outgoing computer nerd who can talk about anything from the paint on the wall to his emotional involvement with the universe.
I rounded the trio out as the theater/dance kid. 'Nuff said.
Of course, we had a fourth counterpart that joined us most of the time--Bryan. Bryan was Matt's roommate and added flavor to the group with his crude humor. He's the kind of guy that's shy, but a badass with combat boots.

College life has its quirks. The first weekend I was at school, I was walking around campus with some other people celebrating a birthday, when a guy who was intoxicated came up. He was upset because his friends forgot his birthday. One of the girls I was with offered a piece of cake to the drunk guy, and said we would lights some candles for him and everything. The guy looked at her and said "I don't smoke candles." And walked away. He wasn't being funny. He was serious. It made me wonder what went on in that slow brain of his.

At first, college seemed like punishment. They make you live with a bunch of people your age, feed yourself on your own, do your own laundry, oh and if you want to stay, you have to make A's, B's, and C's. Except if you worked hard in high school and are one of the fortunate ones to have HOPE Scholarship. Then you have to make really great grades to keep it.

But college has its benefits. Like Study Abroad, coffee shops, and getting to control the temperature in your room. That's the best.