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Friendship In Pritchard
Cody Miller
English 1106
Combiths
11 February 2015
Friendship in Pritchard Coming to college, I was terrified. I had no idea what to expect. I was about to be thrown into a brand new situation with people I did not know, and classes that I was not prepared for so I was worried about making new friends, but I eventually met many great people. Through friendship and the living environment in the freshman dorms such as Pritchard Hall at Virginia Tech, my group of friends has found a sense of place and community in our first year at school.
When you go to a school with around 35,000 students, there is a good chance you will meet people with unbelievable stories. They come from all over the world and have their own stories of how they got here and how they became Hokies, just like myself and everyone else here. It is no longer just the kids that I grew up with and have gone to school with my entire life. It is new people that come from different places and have different experiences than me. With around one thousand students, Pritchard Hall made the huge campus seem smaller. Luckily, two of the girls I knew from high school, Kimber Moore and Sarah Niewola, were living a floor above me. Pictured below, Sarah, Kimber, and I have spent a lot of time together and have grown even closer than we were in high school. “Being close to each other has made the transition to college much easier,” said Kimber. “We have been able to remain close friends as well as making more along the way.”

Figure 1 Sarah Niewola (left), Kimber Moore (right), and I hanging out in Sarah’s room The good part about being close to these friends is that we have also added our roommates to our friend group. My roommate, Trent DiGiovine, and I had just recently met, so I was worried about the transition to living together. “It was like we all just clicked,” Trent said. “We all went from not being close to each other to being close friends in just a short period of time.” Coming from a school where

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