“It’s sort of like camping…except you don’t want to anger the groundskeeper.”
Something that they don’t tell you about making friends in college is that it is a difficult, stressful, and oftentimes heartbreaking process that will eventually culminate in something beautiful. Much like the adage “A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled pressure exceptionally well,” it is both a deeply strenuous process as well as one so splendid and rare that you cannot help but stare at its brilliance.
I definitely think that one of the hardest things for me at Wellesley has been making friends, and then, keeping friends. Like students at many top colleges, we’re all so busy and we’re all so passionate that sometimes we may miss people whom otherwise could have become our dearest friends.
But alas – there are those occasions when the paths of awesome intertwine and you end up with something so terrific, so special, so amazing…that you just have to blog about it.
So this blog is a shout-out to all the people at Wellesley who are always there for their best friends. Who let their friends stay on their floors when their beds don’t provide much solace, who let you borrow their sleeping bags, who give genuine words of comfort and hugs aplenty, who show up with chocolates and movies and your favorite baked goods, who paint your nails, who unpack feelings, who edit your essays when the professor/honor code allows it, who are respectful, who are allies, who are there for you all the time always and have your back no matter what.
This is my shout-out to this amazing community, my amazing familia, and here’s to hoping that you will join me here someday.
To quote Rihanna, “Shine bright like a diamond.”
Your first Wellesley sibling,
Estefania