As I near the end of my CBU career, I can't help but reflect on my time just prior to moving to Riverside and my college experience.
Deciding on which college to attend was extremely difficult, there were so many factors involved in choosing my future school. Large or small school? What field of study do I want to go into? How far from home do I want to go? Christian or non-Christian based? These are just a few questions I asked myself. After getting advice from every person I knew, I found out that I had to come to a decision on my own. I eventually decided to come to CBU because of it's size, reputation, and Christian community.
I was nervous about starting college. I didn't know a single person at CBU and I was moving 7 hours away from home. This scared me because I really value good friendships, and I was so unsure of the life ahead of me. Would I ever find good intimate friendships? How long would it take for that to happen? This was a huge concern for me and I spent a lot of time praying about that, during that summer.
I met a lot of people my freshman year. There were a lot of great people, and with every person I met I wondered if we were going to be close friends. After 2 months of school, I realized that I didn't have any close friends. I remember in October of my Freshman year sitting in my dorm thinking about my friendships and it made me very sad. I still didn't feel like I had made the friends that I wanted.
After another week, I began to hang out with this guy Ryan and some of the guys on the other hall on my floor. We started to hang out more and more, and these became my closest friends. To this day, I have been blessed with great friends at CBU. Ryan has been my roommate for the past 3 years, and he has been my best friend.
I may eventually forget what I learned in school, but I can never forget the great friendships that I have been blessed with these past 4 years! I will leave you with a man that can speak truth better than I ever will:
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." -C.S. Lewis
i like the quote at the end...
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