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NOT WHAT I EXPECTED BUT THAT'S OKAY

Before college, I had this picture in my head of how things would be. I imagined having a big group of friends — we’d laugh on the way to class, go on spontaneous trips, hang out at cafes and restaurants, basically living the kind of life you see in movies. But honestly? It's not really like that. Sometimes, you don’t find the friendships you expected. You can be surrounded by people in a class but still feel completely alone. You wish you had a group to sit with, to share inside jokes and random conversations — but it doesn’t always happen as easily as you’d hoped. Back in school, making friends felt simple and natural. You just clicked with people. Now, it feels harder and the connection feels a little distant, a little formal. I do have friends in college, and they’re good people. But it’s not quite like the friendships I had before. The people around me now might not fill the space of my school friends, but they still matter in their own way. It just takes time to b...