text: Although their are students who take online classes who think that you don't need friends to succeed; However, I think differently and many other do to because going to school my whole life I've gone through a time where I did not have friends. Which is the worst because you won't have fun doing work, won't get experience working with others and also not being able to develop good communication skills with others, which is experience you might need to have in your future job, because when I was starting to talk to people I was really nervous and did not know how to react when around others. Then after a couple of years of having friends around me improved my communication skills which helped me improve my grades from a "B" to "A" because I started asking questions and putting myself out there and using my communication skills that I developed through having friends.