September 1–21, 2017 ISSUE 150–01
3 Editor’s letter 7 More money less profs 10 Historically fashionable campus
Making lifelong friends in university An incomplete guide to lasting friendships
MATT STICKLAND, OPINIONS EDITOR
Welcome (back)
Gone are the days of easy friendship with whoever was in the park with you. Replaced instead with the slow realization that sometimes—being an adult sucks. The trade off from fast friends is the comfortable silence on long car rides with long-time friends. Older people often lament the difficulty of making new friends, or the lack of familiarity new friends have when compared with lifelong friends. As life continues moves forward, maintaining friendships is hard work. There’s a reason why not many high school friend groups survive into people’s forties. There’s a reason not many people carry over their work friendships from job to job. So how does making a long-term friendship work? Unfortunately, like most things in life, there are no hard and fast rules. Be wary of anyone who claims they have the golden rule for life-long friends. It will often sound something like “be careful who you choose to live with second year/sit beside/lab with, they’ll be you’re friend for life!” That’s simply not true, or rather, not explicitly true. For example, it’s possible that long term university roommates end up in a CONT’D PG. 7