How to Stay in Touch with Your TIP Friends

By Lan'Tiqua Burks

At Tip, you make friends that you will keep forever.” -2009 Summer Studies Student


Well this is true unless you don’t keep in touch with your friends from TIP. You have to get everyone’s number, their email address, and add them as a friend on Facebook. These things alone will not keep you and your TIP friends close. If you do these five things you’ll definitely stay in touch with your friends.

1. Call often- make sure you don’t let too much time go by without talking to any of your TIP friends. This will ensure you don’t miss anything important in their life and they don’t miss anything important in yours. When school starts everybody will be busy but make sure you don’t let school sever your connection.

2. Use Facebook and Myspace – when you see a new picture or a funny status make sure you comment. This will allow your friend to know that you saw this. Facebook and MySpace both account for a great deal of communication between teenagers, so when your online and you see an old TIP friend, IM them and let them know what’s new in your life.

3. Use Skype and Oovoo – If you have a web cam this will be a great time to pull it out and put it to use. Web cam conversations not only are more fun but make the conversation more personal because you can see the person you’re talking to. This is great when you get a new haircut or dye your hair a different color and a picture won’t do it justice. A web cam will make you feel like your right there with the person.

4. Email and Texting- emails and text messages are a good way to express how much you miss someone. Emails are faster and easier than writing a letter, and texting is almost instant. Also, most people have their phones 24/7 and you can have several conversations at the same time.

5. Plan your next year at TIP- if you’re going to return to TIP make sure you talk to all your friends and see where they’re going before you decide, and use all the things in the list above to contact all your friends.

Many Tipsters say that TIP is 3 weeks of fun and 49 weeks of waiting. In those weeks of waiting, use these things to stay in touch.