Friends influence on where you want to go

[Cognizant]

I was thinking about where I want to go to college after high school, and it occurred to me that after high school, I'm going to loose a lot of contact with half of my friends. That's ok, things happen. I'm likely going to be attending the same community college as some of my Best friends are.

But I noticed that a lot of my top choices for after college are in the Los Angeles Metro area, and I think it's because that's where my closest best friend is moving after community. I guess I decided I would look into options close to her so that I could stay in touch with her, even if it means I'm not really "experiencing" anything new (I go to Los Angeles like 2-4 times a year lol).

Do you think this has/will have an affect on you? Do you think you'll choose somewhere close to where your friend(s) are going simply based on the fact that your friends will be near by?

[conniption]

My friends don't influence my choice of colleges at all. The majority of my friends want to stay in Texas, but I really want to go out of state and I'm fine leaving my friends behind because I'm sure I'll make some new ones.

[unknownuser]

I've always had older people tell me that high school friendships / relationships never last and that the people you'll stay friends with are the ones you'll meet in college. Of course I didn't believe this because I loved my friends and thought that we'd be inseparable, but now I'm starting to believe that's true. When you're in high school, you're still under your parents' wing and their roof and you work on pleasing your friends, but once you're off in the real world (whether or not you're dorming or living at home), you're responsible for yourself and have to prioritize yourself over your friends; you can't really afford to be wasting your time and money chasing after them; you need to focus on you, your schooling, your job, YOU.

That being said, I don't care where I go, I don't care where the people I know go. I'm fine with maintaining contact with them, sure, but I'm also open to moving on and meeting new people. I won't let others set me back.

[DisneyPrincess27]

About half of my friends don't even want to go to college. They're barely passing high school. And my friends that do want to go to college are going either out of state or in another city. The college that want to go to is kinda in my nieghbor but I didn't choose it because most af my friends live around there. But I'll still try tokeep in contact with them

[Typhlosion]

As a lot of people say, college will be one of your best moments of your life, as well as being pretty defining to your future career. I think you should make a choice based on yourself alone. If you are really good friends, you could always meet up once or a few times an year, specially considering all the forms of social interaction through internet. Plus, the local colleges may not be of equal quality.

Your time to shine, bud.

[backjruton]

Don't stick with friends. To be honest if they're good enough they'll have different ways to contact you anyway, not that I really see how facebook can constitute for other ways you spoke to each other. I'm not really good at keeping up with friends, never have been, I have them added but I feel too awkward to speak to 95% of them.

Friends didn't influence the college I went to; I applied for the course before I found out some other friend was - and I didn't even talk to him much before or in college anyway. It was nice to have someone I knew, someone to talk to, for a while but because of my awkward personality I soon made more and better friends. Somehow... :P not that I talk to them anymore either. I can't integrate college life with home life... too much of a coward I am in this sense with the fact I only ever had one friend home in all that time and I've got along with loads of people; I'm just used to the disappointment, especially now I've lost my very best friend (technically speaking) due to what happened with us both being rejected from college and the only way of contact being deviantart.... :whoops:

Although technically, going to the same college as friends didn't really matter. I guess the better friends applied for apprenticeships, something else to do; and all 3 colleges (tech, sixth form and art) are all right next to eachother so if I actually wanted to meet any of them that wouldn't have been a problem either.