[Pen Island]

As the title says really

If you're at university, have you stayed in contact with your friends from college/sixth form/wherever? I don't just mean the odd comment on facebook, I mean texts/calls/visiting each other/seeing each other when at home etc.
If you're going to university, do you plan on keeping in contact?

And why?

(If I knew how to do a poll, I'd put one in Ah well)

[Pen Island]

Ooo I forgot to add...
With my friends it's a lot of us arn't at uni so obviously still hang out a lot, but the uni-goers do still keep in contact and visit when they can, and now it's summer, they're back and it's just like it used to be And those of us who are also going in September (including me ) also plan to come back and visit. Guess we're a very close group

[rugbyladosc]

Not really

[alexlemon2]

Would like to but in all honesty I will probably only keep in contact with my best friend

[Quadratic]

(Original post by Pen Island)
As the title says really

If you're at university, have you stayed in contact with your friends from college/sixth form/wherever? I don't just mean the odd comment on facebook, I mean texts/calls/visiting each other/seeing each other when at home etc.
If you're going to university, do you plan on keeping in contact?

And why?

(If I knew how to do a poll, I'd put one in Ah well)

Our group of friends have managed to stay in touch fairly well - I know we haven't as much as we'd planned though. We still meet up in the holidays etc, but the communication during term time is very limited compared to what we said it would be. There's even a couple of people who I haven't spoken to at all. When you're in the midst of it all it can be difficult to think "hey, I haven't spoken to such and such for a while", especially when you have large workloads like all of us seem to have.

[veracocha]

No I'm sure everyone is going to abandon all their friends they've ever met. Jesus wept.

[aspirinpharmacist]

Of course, plan to text/facebook/skype my friends during termtime and visit on the holidays. It's too far really to visit during the term, it's a 10 hour journey by train so by the time I got home I'd have a couple of hours before I had to go back. Pointless really. One of my friends is staying in our hometown though and she's kind of pushing away me and my other friend who are both leaving (although my other friend is only going to be an hour away). No idea what'll happen then. But I plan to stay in contact with my friends for as long as I can until we inevitably drift apart. We might end up chatting again when we're older after many years of not talking or something but I imagine I'll drift apart from a lot of my home friends eventually. It always happens, I don't mind it too much.

[earlysound]

Nope, everyone made the best intentions but people just drift apart because lets be honest you're not going to see them for the majority of the year.

[blondie :)]

I intend to stay friends with two of my closest friends, ones going to Leeds which isn't far from where I hopefully will end up anyway - I've known her 15 years so I don't intend on throwing the friendship away.

I doubt I'll stay in touch with most, I have a big friendship group at the moment, but I'm not really close with all of them so we'll probably just drift apart, we already have since leaving college anyway.

[xoxAngel_Kxox]

I have stayed properly in touch with three friends from Sixth Form, and three more who went to High School but then left at 16. I talk to a few more on Facebook but would probably never meet up. Out of everyone I went to uni with there is one I will see regularly because we live near each other, and two more who I would see as much as possible. I have three friends from each stage of my education lol, must be my lucky number.

It's a shame really as there were a lot of people on my course at uni who were cool, but who I would never meet up with outside of an educational environment. But I can still chat to them on Facebook at least.

[tuesday91]

I didn't even realise that people didn't! I love having people at home to spend the holidays with, otherwise things could get very boring.

[manic_fuzz]

Definitely plan on staying friends with a lot of my current ones! Firstly because I wouldn't want to lose the great friends that I already have, and secondly because otherwise during the holidays I'll have no one to hang out with and that'd just be depressing

Naturally I'm sure I'll fall out of contact with some people who I intended to maintain a friendship with, but otherwise considering I live in the countryside then it's hard to avoid seeing the same people anyway when out and about

[Emaemmaemily]

I kept in constant contact with 2 of my friends from home while away. It wasn't my intention to only do it with two, but the others just kind of dwindled away.
I personally found that many of my friends who weren't going away to uni were quite bitter with me about leaving, and took it as a personal insult. So contact with them stopped quite quickly. Other ones largely just cared less and less, and seeing as I'd made so many life long friends at uni it didn't bother me very much.
The friends that matter will keep in contact.

[accountant-future]

Probably keep in contact with about 3

...and that is because they're going to the same uni

[kikukaede]

I don't have any

[Melting Sugar.]

Only one of my friends didn't go to University and i've almost compeltely lost contact with her simply because she barely texts/her signal is poor/something to do with texts not going through and she doesn't go on Facebook at all and when we have get togethers she doesn't go to many of them. The rest I've stayed in good contact with a decent amount of them still.

[crocker710]

I do, there was a really close group of around 10 of us who have remained in contact, visited, and still see eachother when home regularly. It'd feel odd not speaking to people you've grown up with?

[CantThinkOfaUsername]

I tried to keep in touch with a couple of my school friends but it didn't really work; they weren't really making much effort. Friendship can be quite forced in a school environment anyway. We did meet up a few times, especially earlier in the year but whilst it's a shame to lose friends, school was probably the only thing we really had in common.

My other pre-uni friends were neighbours, cousins, or people I met through work so I still see them regularly.

[swbp]

I sound so ambitious compared to everyone on here, possibly naive. I have around 9 I want to stay in close contact with because they're my core group and have been for a while. Obviously this may not go to plan, but i'm hoping for the best - I love my friends to bits.

[Emaemmaemily]

(Original post by swbp)
I sound so ambitious compared to everyone on here, possibly naive. I have around 9 I want to stay in close contact with because they're my core group and have been for a while. Obviously this may not go to plan, but i'm hoping for the best - I love my friends to bits.

As long as everyone feels the same then it's completely possible. The main reason for these things not working (mainly for me, anyway) is when the person on one side of the friendship doesn't make an effort. You can't keep it going all by yourself.
But if you all make an effort, then it should be fine.