College Admissions Essay: Middle School

Middle school was the time of finding new friends and getting involved in school activities. People around me were making new friends and leaving their old ones and started joining different sport teams. In eighth grade my friend group was separating into their own groups, they started fighting and just did not like each other anymore. I had to make a choice of which friends that I would stand beside, in making this decision I was scared that the other friend group wouldn’t talk to me. Choosing which friend group to go along with was very difficult. On the first day of eighth grade I was very anxious to see what friends I would have in class. In science, I had about two friends in class that I knew, Sammy and Lou, and there was another girl that Sammy knew so we all sat together. When I went to seminar I saw the girl so I sat next her and learned her name was Carla. The two of us had a lot in common from music to favorite TV shows. A couple months later in science, we were put into different groups and I sat with Sammy and Lou sat Carla. Lou would always complain about her, about how loud and rude she was. The teacher switched Lou and I seats, so now I sat with Carla, which I had no problem with it since I really like her. My other friends started telling me that they did not like her they found her annoying and thought she was a horrible person. They all
started to ignore her when she talked or talked over her to make her quiet, then they told me to stop talking to her. I was conflicted, should I listen to my friends, who I have known longer than I did Carla, or I should just ignore them and continue talking to Carla. They we were talking to me about her and it was getting really annoying. My friends were being so rude to her and she started to realize what they were doing. Carla became really sad because she thought that these people were her friends and she never thought they would talk about her. I also was really angry at them, because if they could talk about some behind their back they could do it to me too. In the end, I decided I would continue being friends with Carla, my other friends were upset, but did they continue to talk to me. Maintaining a friendship is a lot of work, but it is worth it.
The friends that I used to have were very unreliable, trusting them was more work than it should have been. Seeing how they treated others around them made me change my opinion about them. To this day I am still friends with Carla, my other friends and I don’t talk anymore. Friends who you can trust and rely on without thinking are the people that you should strive to be around. Choosing which friends to trust, and to not trust is a tiring thing to do, but you should always choose someone who you know would stick up for you no matter the
situation.