Throughout my days in high school, I have bounced around as far as which groups that I would hang out with. Many of those friends from high school that I thought were close to me were not as close as I thought they were. Some people had others that they considered their closest friends, many of those people turned out to be real assholes to me and some of my other friends, and others were starting to become involved in activities that I didn't want to be involved in. It seemed like every "group" of friends that I was a part of, I somehow faded away from that group and now have lost pretty much all contact with.
During my time hear at Creighton, while the people that I hung out with or talked to on a regular basis changed over the past couple of years, my core group of friends has not changed. The five guys that I mentioned above I have known since freshman year because we were all in the Freshman Leadership Program. During the course of the year, we all learned more about each other and were able to become very close friends, our friendship seemed to grow even stronger sophomore year, since I lived with Scott, Mike, and Nate while Will and Pat lived next door to us. Even though we live in different places now with some people being RAs and others living off-campus, we still keep in contact through sending comical stuff through e-mail, and even meeting for lunch once a week.
There are many reasons why my "entourage" is so special. One thing that makes us unique is while we all have interests in common, we all have interests that make us unique (some of them being related to our fields of study). Some examples include Mike's interest in art, Nate's interest in history and politics, and Scott's interest in journalism-related material. The cool thing about this is that we share those interests with each other and find aspects about the other interests very intriguing. Every day, you could say that we are finding out new stuff about each other. Another reason that the group of friends that I have is great is because for the most part, we get along with others that may not know the others well. Different people are able to join in on conversations with ease and feel comfortable around us.
However, there is one huge reason why I enjoy this group of guys that I hang out with. The reason is because when we are together, we don't try to be people we are not. What I mean by this is that we do not act all "macho" or try to change our personalities around others. The fact is that we are nerds, and we tend to act like it at times. We all have our unique personalities, but we seem to embraces our inner nerd when we are together. Our conversations can range to any subject from school to the most nerdy and outlandish subject such as Halo or the random things that we find on the internet and send to each other. In addition to this, none of us feel uncomfortable or "less-manly" talking about personal stuff to each other. We can talk to each other about anything personally, whether it be problems in school or problems with our personal life. There is nothing that we cannot talk about with each other, whether it be individually or with the entire group.
My core groups of friends have helped me to get through a lot of things in my personal life. Without them, I may have not enjoyed my Creighton experience as much as I have. While I may unfortunately lose contact with some of the people that have gone to Creighton, I know that these five guys will have a special place in my life.
Thank you very much good sir. I truly think that you guys are my closest friends as well. I could not have asked for a better sophomore year roommate and I am glad that you have put up with my shenanigans throughout all of that time. You are awesome.
ReplyDeleteAww. Thank you Dubs. We had better keep this up when we all graduate in May.
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