It won ' t last . Life gets in the way no matter what you do my friends took off to multiple countries and all over North America right after graduation , and while many of us made efforts to stay in touch eventually everyone settled down , started careers , paired up , started families , and fell off the radar . Facebook has been great for connecting to people once again , but other than reunions every ten years that only about 20 % of my class attend there are only a couple of college classmates I see ever . The exceptions are largely the people who never left the metro in which our college is situated they still seem to see one another occasionally and even attend events on campus sports , arts , fundraising , etc . . If you attended a school with a nationalinternational student body most will move away and never come back if you go to a more locallyfocused school it ' s much more likely that you ' ll be within an hour of many friends after you graduate since they won ' t all move away . That said , my graduate school friends are actually the ones I kept up with more , probably because we all work in the same field so we connect at conferences or other professional events every so often . It ' s probably a life stage thing too . by my mid 20 s I ' d lost touch with most of my college friends because we were all scattered but during or immediately after grad school everyone was getting married late 20 searly 30 s so we had reason to travel around the country to attend those weddings , got to know partners , and stayed in touch a bit more than with college friends .