One of my greatest fears - definitely THE biggest fear - of going away to college is my fear of "What if I don't make any friends?" It's a universal fear. We're hardwired for relationships; the whole "made in God's image" thing all over again; the Trinity is relational to the core and so are we. There is no worse feeling than being surrounded by people - especially people your age - and yet being completely and totally alone. I reassure myself I will be fine; I have made lots of great friends: both Pats, Chris and Lee, Dylan and Tyler, Bryon; people I hang out with all the time and can easily share my stories and life and make dumb jokes with. Crucial people. I think I will be able to make more friends and keep the same I have now; after all, I'll only be thirty minutes away and I plan on coming home on the weekends. Yet I'm kind of frightened because I'm a scientifically-edged kid; I want there to be formulas for most of the stuff in life, and it's taken God to show me there are no such formulas to the most hardcore realities. So I can't just plug in the X's and Y's to friendship-making and roll out friends left and right. The last friend I made whom I really got pretty close to is Pat Hague; and I don't remember the specifics of how it happened. It just... did. And this scares me, because what if this mysterious thing called 'building friendships' finds itself lacking at college? I don't fear anything, really, except this, and I know I am not alone.