Before I joined MBA, the people I knew were categorised as follows:

• Family
• Relatives
• Family friends
• Best friends
• School friends
• Tuition friends
• Boarding friends
• College friends
• Best friends from school/boarding
• Best friends from college
• Hostel friends
• Acquaintances
• Strangers

All the people I knew fell in one of the above categories... there were rarely any gray patches. Right now, my life is filled with gray... Apart from above categories, following have been added:

• 1st year Groupies
• 2nd year Groupies
• People I completely ignore
• People I discuss only work with
• People I discuss other people with
• People I discuss only personal life with
• People I discuss everything apart from work and personal life, with
  
• Acquaintances
• Strangers
• TAPMI friends
• People I hang out with: 'coz they are (or pretend to be) different from the rest (for better or for worse)
  

Hmm... I wish I could give a name for these people... I have a good discussion with so many of them in a day and yet keep wondering how I am to categorise them... where do they fit in...