True Friends at College Make Life Better

Noah Nelson
4 min readFeb 16, 2021

In high school, everyone is categorized by what group they like to hang out with. And it’s all right there in the cafeteria. In unofficial locations, there’s the jocks, the popular ones, the nerds, band geeks, burnouts, artists, goths, loners and miscellaneous.

I never fell into any of these groups. Sure, I played in the band but I wasn’t a band geek. I wrote for the school newspaper and…

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Noah Nelson

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alum | Author of “Life: A Collection of Short Stories” and “Dana and Me” | Featured Writer on ILLUMINATION (23x).