“We just kept talking and talking and doing other things, and next thing we knew it was 6 a.m.”
So first semester of college, I was really worried about making friends. I was like, “Okay, I’m just gonna, I’m gonna attend some club meetings and hopefully I’ll find some people there.” So I did. And I actually very quickly found people. First meeting of this one club, I found — what, it’s a group of six people, and we all would hang out every meeting and we were getting pretty close. We had hung out like a few times outside of the club, but not very much.
But two of the group had never seen The Lord of the Rings and so we were like, “Okay, obviously we need to do that. We need to all do a watch-through.” So we picked out a day, and we all went over to one person’s dorm hall. It was just — we were just out in the open and one of us like brought down an Xbox. We set it up with the TV and we just sat there watching The Lord of the Rings.
This hangout started at like, I think 5 p.m. And we got through I think two of the movies — which, this was the extended edition, so like, that was pretty long. And then we just kind of ended up talking for a long time after that. Which was very nice and very fun except we lost track of the time. And we just kept talking and talking and doing other things, and next thing we knew it was 6 a.m. We had been hanging out for like 13 hours straight. And so at that point we all, kind of a little like delirious after that long, we all left, except for the person who lived at that dorm hall. And we all went home.
And I just like, whatever stage of friendship it is that you hang out for 13 hours straight, I think we just speedran that. Because after that it’s like I’ve known them my whole life. We like to, we like to joke that we’re like pair-bonded cats. Like we’re just all very inseparable. But evidently I had nothing to fear about finding friends in college.
