Advice about keeping in touch with friends from high school, from the book "How to Survive Your Freshman Year" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $14.95), straight from people who've done it.

"Don't spend too much time with your high school friends. Half my high school ended up going to my college. I was fortunate enough to live on the other side of campus. They're still hanging out with each other. They've never met other people and they all live together."
- R.S., University of Maryland, junior

"Definitely keep in touch with your high school friends. You can always count on them for support and good laughs. This may be stating the obvious, but when you return home, they'll be the first ones (aside from your family) who will want to spend time with you and with whom you will most likely socialize, so why fall out of touch?"
- Ariel Melendez, Princeton University, freshman

"IM is the only way I stay in contact with some people. It's an amazing invention; I use it all the time. But it can suck you in. Yesterday, I stayed off it for the first time in a week; I guess I realized I needed to do some college stuff. But it helps you adjust to college life. Back home, I have a lot of friends I want to stay in touch with. I have one life back home and now I'm starting up a new life. In the beginning it's hard; you want to maintain your old life. But you also have to realize that you're maturing and changing. IM is kind of a bridge between these two worlds."
Matt Monaco, George Washington University, freshman

"Invite your high school friends over for a couple of days. The ones who stay in touch are the ones worth keeping for a lifetime."
- Khalil Sullivan, Princeton University, junior

"When I met my best friend, she was crying in her bed in our freshman dorm. She had a long-distance boyfriend. She was from the mountains of Georgia. I'm from St. Louis. I went to a private, Catholic girl's school. She went to a public school with rednecks and people with gun racks on their cars. We couldn't be more different. But we had a class together and one day, after I found her crying, she overslept. So I was like, "Oh, I'll call you in the morning," and we started walking to class together, and we got breakfast after class. We became friends.
- J. DEVEREUX J. Devereux, Georgetown University, 2002
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