Will you stay ‘friends’ with your fresher friends?
We asked approximately 100 Warwick students about their friends in first-year.
Our survey revealed that the majority of first-years, 61 percent of responses, claimed to have been closest to their hallmates. The other 40 percent claimed that they were closest to their coursemates or society/club-mates.
We also asked students how many of their first-year friends they stayed ‘friends’ with. Results show a plummet of first-year friends in students’ second years.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW…
It is estimated that second years will lose 40 percent of their first-year friends, though they may gain about a few, three percent, of them back again in third-year.
Only seven percent of second years stayed with ‘all’ their first-year friends. For third years, the figure was five percent.
The highest proportion of second-years, 45 percent, stayed with ‘most’ of their fresher friends, whereas for third years, the highest proportion, 47 percent, stayed with only ‘several’ of them.
Only five percent of third-year students however said that they stayed with ‘only a few’ first-year friends while 17 percent of second-years said the same thing.
Photos: Ann Yip; slider photo: Richard Seely, Flickr
Comments (1)