Different uni relationships

Right I'm 18, been with the gf for 4 years 3 months. Now we're off to different unis, I'm at the mighty Nottingham, she's at York. We're staying together, and I genuinely think we can stick together despite the distance... but I'd like to hear other people's views and stories, as I've heard a few already and they're usually either interesting or hilarious

My boyfriend and I survived me being away at uni while he worked back at home, and he still works away a lot now.
We had our problems sometimes making it work, but only practically ie train times, fitting in visits around both of us working as well as my lectures, financial issues. It wasn't a particularly easy thing to do, but we love each other, and everything in life worth having is hard work sometimes. All this stuff about true love being easy and if you have difficulties then its not true love is rubbish. Sometimes you have to work at your relationship, but this can also be a good thing - it focuses your attention on it, rather than neglecting it because you assume everything is going swimmingly.

It sounds a bit cheesy, but if it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
If it isn't going to work, it won't work whether you live 100 miles or 100 metres apart.