CrandellInterview

**Freshmen (a) vs. Upperclassman (b)**
 * College Schedules can become a Dictator of Friendships**

1. //Are your friends at home like your friends here at school?// a. No, my friends at home I can trust more and I can confide in them. The people here at school are my friends, but they just are not them same. b. My closest friends here do have the same personalities as my friends at home. 2. //Have your friends changed since the beginning of your freshmen year?// a. My friends are really the same as they were at the beginning of my freshmen year. b. I do have some of the same friends, but of course over time they have changed. I have made some new friends and have lost some others. Now with different schedules, I have to plan to see some of my friends and some others I do not get to see at all. 3. //How did you meet most of your friends?// a. All my friends live on the same floor as me. b. As a freshman, most of my friends were on the floor, but now my closest friends are usually prior roommates or from clubs and organizations I am involved in. 4. //Can you eat lunch with your friends every day?// a. The people I eat with switches from day to day depending on all our different schedules. b. The people I with everyday changes. I find it is impossible to always plan to eat with someone due to schedule conflicts and plan being busy. 5. //Do you think you will keep in touch with a lot of your friends from this year?// a. I am planning on living with six different girls who live on the floor now, so yes. b. I know I will make new friends, but I will have the same basic friends as I do now. 6. //Based on how you are feeling with you talk or hangout with the same people?// a. I will talk to or hangout with different friends based on how I am feeling. b. I will normally talk or hangout with the same people. 7. //What is your definition of a true friend?// a. Trustworthy, can tell them anything, they will not judge me b. Loyal, generous, honest, open minded, fun

Based on the answers to my questions I believe my hypothesis was correct. Friends at college can easily be changed based on class schedules and where you live. I was very happy though that I chose to interview an upperclassman and a freshman. The freshman was not involved in anything and her friends only live on the floor in which she lives. She did not even mention having any friends from her classes. The upperclassman had a bigger social network, but she admitted she does not get to see her friends like she used to because everyone is so busy. She also has made most of her friends from clubs or organizations so it is easier for her to see them. I believe as freshmen you make friends with the people you see and it does not really matter if there are common interests or not. As upperclassman you branch out and make more friends with those in your major and clubs; there are more similar interests involved and common goals in mind.