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
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