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"When I was first getting ready to pack up my bags and head to college, the number-one rule I was told was &amp;quot;don&amp;#039;t get into a relationship your first year of college \u2014 just enjoy yourself.&amp;quot; Though I listened, two of my best friends did start dating within the second month of their freshman year. One who is a senior now and still in the relationship and the other broke up with her boyfriend at the end of freshman year. You can say it depends on the personality, but what really is the healthiest choice? My friend who is still dating her boyfriend is just as happy as the day she entered college and loves the person she is with. We joke that they&amp;#039;ll be married one day, though she doesn&amp;#039;t like to think that far in advance. Yet she does say that even if they don&amp;#039;t get married, she&amp;#039;ll look back at those four years and remember that she shared college with someone truly special. My friend who broke up with the boy she dated her entire freshman year said that it was a great relationship and that she doesn&amp;#039;t regret spending her freshman year with someone. She is glad she didn&amp;#039;t randomly hook up with several boys and learned a lot about herself in the time that she was in the relationship. However, now she&amp;#039;s free to live the single life and flirt guiltlessly (and has no regrets about that either)! Consensus? It&amp;#039;s okay as long as you keep some things in mind. After all, I personally haven&amp;#039;t met anyone that regrets being with the person they dated even if it led to a breakup. Nor do they regret that time or wish they had been single. In any relationship, you do learn a lot about yourself. Just be careful as a freshman to not miss out on opportunities. Be independent, make your own friends, and have a life outside of your boyfriend if you decide to have one freshman year of college. I think it is important to learn how to take care of yourself in college. That way, when you are in a relationship you&amp;#039;re not totally dependent on someone else taking care of you, and you know how to carry on if the relationship does end, which it very well might. What do you think? Would you date your freshman year of college? Do you know people who have and it ended badly? Post below and tell us your thoughts! Xoxo, Divya "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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