Making friends at Uni
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When I moved into university a year and a half ago, I made friends with a guy (let's call him Chris) who lived on the same floor as me in halls. Chris and I remained friends, going out and having fun, along with the rest of our group. But it was very strange when we found out that we actually lived 10 minutes apart back home and our schools were rivals, yet we had never met. Now this in itself is not that much of a surprising event but about 6 months into our uni lives, I noticed that one of my best friends who I had gone to school with (let's call him Charlie), was in a photo on Chris' facebook feed. I was quizzical but I suppose living 10 minutes apart from Chris would mean that Chris and Charlie might share some mutual friends. But it turns out that Charlie had moved in with and made friends with one of Chris' best friends at a completely different university! We thought it's not the most shocking thing to happen but it made us chuckle that we had lived so close to each other for 18 years and it takes a random chance of two of us choosing the same university and be in the same flat as each other. Now when we go home for the holidays we try to hang out as a 4
Date submitted:Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:02:32 +0000Coincidence ID:8322
