Growing up, I had always dreamed of going to college. In my childhood fantasies of what university would be like, I would not necessarily romanticize its academic or career-building purposes, but I yearned to find what has been preached to so many young girls as the most memorable part of their lives: finding their college friend group. From seeing it in the movies to witnessing our moms leave for a “girls trip”, a college friend group is what many of us think of when we think of the “college experience” . What the movies and our mothers don’t tell us about college is that friend groups don’t just form out of thin air. If I could give any future college freshman one piece of advice, it would be this: Do not rush it.