Are your close friends from college still in contact with you today?

oiprocs

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I hear often or maybe just a couple times (not really sure but it came to me just now) that the people you choose to be friends with in college, or your close network of peers that you keep in touch with daily, have a very good chance of being the closest people to you outside of your family. I guess the reasoning is that you enter the workforce and at that point you don't get to choose co-workers so you may not like them, you have to work from 8-5, you start looking for an SO, may not go out as much, etc.

This is all very general, but for anyone who has been out of school for say, 10 years, how detailed is your level of contact with those you hung out with in college?

I don't really find it feasible to believe that you can't make close friends at any stage of your life; I can see people getting comfortable with what they have, but that doesn't make it any harder to make a close friend.

EDIT: I guess a lot of people have kept those close friends around. With that in mind, do you have any close people that you didn't pickup in college or before?
 

funkymatt

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not 10 years, but just saw a buddy i went to school with this past weekend. it was good to just hang out and talk about current happenings.

i see him roughly once a year. other friends I speak with on the phone or stay in contact via email. I've also become pretty good friends with roommates and coworkers and still talk to them.
 

SpongeBob

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Some of them, but i'm closest with my high school buddies. After college, my friends all moved back to their hometowns for the most part so I'm only close with the ones that live around me.

Edit: Been out of college (undergrad) for 5 years.
 

Juno

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i'm in college right now, please see me in 5 or even 10 years. :D

edit: i have a close friend who i've known since 3rd grade and we managed to attend same schools from elementary to college.
 

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I've been out of college for almost 8 years and I email my two closest friends almost daily and see them in person every other month or so, if not more frequently. It doesn't hurt that they are only 1 & 2 hours away.
 
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I only made a couple friends in college, due mostly to the age differences I'm sure (or just me being a general a-hole). However I'm still great friends with most of my high school group, and even a lot of my elementary school friends.
 

EvilYoda

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well, I met my best friend at college...usually talk to her every day or every other day. other than that, I had a lot of high school friends at the same university :p
 

Atif

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The devil posts in AnandTech Off-Topic? Well I'll be... errr, you'll be damned

Peace
 

HomerSapien

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A few are. I feel like I grew up and they stayed the same. Every once in awhile I will run into one. I am still friends with my close friends from high school, although we dont speak often its still easy to pick up where we left off.
 

oiprocs

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Originally posted by: Atif
The devil posts in AnandTech Off-Topic? Well I'll be... errr, you'll be damned

Peace

Hey, it gets boring down here sometimes. There's only so much fun to be found in the pain of others. But that wears off quickly. :evil:
 

Kelemvor

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Don't have any close friends from college, but still have a group from HS that get together often.
 

pyonir

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My closest friends are still from college (i'm 29). I keep in touch with exactly zero people from high school, and just a few former coworkers (all from my last job i just quit).
 

Martin

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Almost all my friends from HS went to the same university (half of them were even in the same program), and I see them regularly.
 

Supermercado

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I've only been out of school for 3 years but I keep up with a couple people from school on a pretty regular basis. One of them I talk to every day on instant messenger and Ventrilo when we're gaming. Another guy from my hall freshman year, I actually just started working at the same company as him but don't see him at work since we're on different projects. I've got a couple of other good friends that I talk to daily, one from 4th grade (16 years now) and another from 10th grade. I don't live closer than 6 hours to any of them save for the guy at the same company so I don't see them too often.
 

Whisper

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I still keep in touch with pretty much all of my close friends from college, as well as quite a few general acquaintances whom I happen to run into on a regular basis. As for HS, I talk to maybe two regularly (outside of those who went to the same university as me).
 

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I've only been 2yrs out of Uni and I see 2 of them regularly see/ speak to them. I've holidayed with the both of them after we graduated. Another guy I speak to every so often and thats about it as far as Uni mates. I had quite a lot of mates at Uni but as time goes on I'm f0cking busy with training and work so speak to everyone else less. Hell I only speak to about 2 of my close HS mates regularly.

I have awesome work mates. Current job the average age of the department is ~ 27 or so. We spend quite a lot of time outside of work going out together.

Koing
 

JDMnAR1

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I finished my BS in 1990, and am still in fairly regular contact with three of my friends from college, despite the fact that the nearest one is 3 hours away. I see one of them at least a few times a year like clockwork - dove season opener, duck season and deer season. :) The others I see when they are in town or when I pass through where they live.
 

UNCjigga

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Most definitely...in fact my friends from college pretty much ARE my only friends. But I never kept up with anyone from highschool or earlier though.
 

Shadowknight

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Well, earlier my week my mom had lunch with her cousin and a roommate she hadn't seen in 35 years. Shocked the hell out of me.
 

krunchykrome

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I am still very close friends to a group of buddies that I've known since I was a little kid. One of them, I've known since elementary school, and two other's I've known since middle school 6th grade. Im 24 now. I hang out with them on a regular basis.