My personal network data I found to be divided almost perfectly in half with two separate friend groups. This wasn’t too much of a surprise for me since I know that I seem to have two different sets of friends depending on what time of the year it is. I play hockey on the varsity hockey team at UBC and am with my team everyday so I became really close to a lot of them and had many of them in my personal network but once the school year is over then most of the guys go back to where they are from and I don’t see them as much. I then have my group of friends that i have been friends with since high school and although I am still friends with them during the school year I don’t end up seeing them much until the summer just since they are all busy with school or work themselves and on weekends when they are free I have games. These friend groups have met briefly if my high school friends ever come to games but I wouldn’t consider any of them to have any real ties. Another observation I found in my network was that my institution as well as occupation that I share with are split almost exactly in half. This came as a surprise to most of my group but since I was away playing junior hockey from the age of 16-20 I didn’t start going to university till I was 21 and most of my high school friends were just finishing up their school. All of my friends I have that are from hockey are all in the same situation as me where they are older university students where most of my high school friends are all either in a masters or med school or working full time jobs now. I myself hope to play professional hockey after school so I share that same passion and goal as most of my team compared to my high school friends that are all pursuing their goals that vary depending on the person. All of my high school friends went to post secondary school either at SFU or UBC so we all share that in common its just that they went to university right after high school compared to myself that started 3 years after graduating. My network if looked at from an outside point of view can seem a bit strange just because of the big division of two groups which I consider both very strong ties and very good friends. Its definitely an interesting network just because I have two very separate groups of friends and who I interact with most depends on the time of the year. My high school friends have been very close friends for almost 10 years now and its just become a normal thing for me to kind of be unavailable all hockey season so from September to April. I think my network shows that you can have very strong ties with true friends even without seeing them everyday because when I see my high school friends after being gone for the 8 months its completely the same and like I never was away.