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" I left for college in August with six best friends at home, convinced that I would never be able to make as good of friends at school, especially during my freshman year. On the first day of pre-season, I didn&amp;#039;t know one of the twenty-five girls on my team and sat there quite awkwardly; unaware of where I would fit in amongst this group of girls. I was petrified of the upperclassmen and timid around the other freshmen that I had previously met. As I sit here writing 10 months later, things could not be more different. I am good friends with one of the juniors on my team who I was originally scared to even speak around, and I can tell my best friend at school anything I would tell my best friends at home. I am truly shocked at how close you are able to become with friends at college in such a short amount of time\u2014as I feel as though I have known all of my teammates for years. Between eating meals, studying, playing soccer, and going to parties together, friends at school become much like family. Therefore, my biggest surprise about freshman year was just how influential finding a solid group of friends can be on your college experience. I fell in love with my school more than I ever thought one could. Even though I am the daughter of two alumni who proudly shouted &amp;quot;Ray Bucknell!&amp;quot; my entire childhood, I never thought I would have ended up here, nor enjoyed it so much and I have the strong bonds I&amp;#039;ve made with so many girls to thank for that. Although I have yet to rush a sorority and find my &amp;quot;sisters,&amp;quot; I know I will feel as though I am sister-less this summer without my school friends! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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