Campion Hall–Just weeks after arriving on campus armed with twin-sized Target bedsheets, Childish Gambino posters and Starbucks gift cards from Aunt Kathy, one plucky Seattle University freshman has already established friendships she thinks will actually last a lifetime.
Kelsey Kaffrey, 18, says all it took was one orientation ice-breaker game that involved collecting classmates’ names on a bingo sheet if they met certain criteria such as “has a cat,” “went to the beach this summer,” or “is a codependent child of a messy divorce.”
“When I was searching for somebody who ‘enjoys going to the movies,’ I just knew I’d found my best friend because – get this – I enjoy movies too!” Kaffrey said in a desperate frenzy next to her new BFF, Carlie Westhouser.
Westhouser nodded with a polite facial expression that simultaneously screamed “Help me.”
“Okay, now smile so I can post you on my Instagram story with a dog-face filter, and the caption ‘I love my new best friend,’” Kaffrey said before taking 25 selfies, then peering through them. “God, I can’t believe how similar we are — we’re, like, the same person!”
Before Kaffrey could finish selecting a selfie to post, however, Westhouser had made a run for it.
“Opes, I think we lost her!” Kaffrey asked looking around. “She’ll be back … they always come back … forever.”
