With graduation approaching, sibling duos are going to be departing their separate ways for the first time after graduating highschool.
Growing up, identical twins Swathi and Varsha, now seniors, enjoyed being involved in classical music and dance groups with each other. Being identical, peers often got the two mixed up both in and out of school. “The first time was in elementary school.” Swathi explains. “Varsha had this friend from tennis. She’d be walking in, and he’d scream ‘Hi Swathi!’ at the top of his lungs. I [Swathi] had no idea who he was. He would then go up to Varsha and say ’I keep saying hi to you but you never say hi back to me!’” Swathi then realized he’d gotten the two confused. “It took four or five rounds of this before I actually realized what was going on.”
Swathi and Varsha are preparing to move hours apart to separate colleges to well known football and basketball rival schools. Varsha will be enrolling in Michigan State University and Swathi to the University of Michigan.
When asked how she feels about leaving her twin, Varsha explains, “I’m actually kind of excited. I mean, I love having her around, but having your own space to be completely yourself without being known as Swathi’s twin is exciting to me.”
“It’s definitely going to be a change not having her in my house 24/7.” Swathi elaborates, “But also having the space to try new things without being ‘the twin’ is going to be nice.”
Fraternal twins Hannah and Sophie Smith may not share looks, but have been in a shared friend group throughout highschool. The two also enjoyed playing on the same golf team while at Troy High School. Hannah and Sophie are preparing to go their separate ways to college. When asked how they feel, Sophie explains, “I don’t really know. We won’t be that far apart, since she’s [Hannah] is going to Grand Valley and I’m going to Michigan State, but it will definitely be different not being able to see eachother every day.”
Sara and Mohammed Naga, fraternal twins, didn’t share many interests during their time in highschool. In fact, the two describe themselves as being “polar opposites.”
“He’s more of an outdoorsy and sports type of person” states Sara Naga. “I’m more of an indoorsy academic type.” When asked how they feel about moving their separate ways to college, the two emphasize that they are “very excited” for the change. Sara is planning on attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Mohammed plans to attend Wayne State University in Detroit.
Various different universities in and out of Michigan are going to be homes to one half of a dynamic twin duo.
