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Everybody else is saying the right things. I will second part of what Ustwo said, in that most of your college friends would have drifted away within a year or two. This is not to denigrate your loss, but to say that in any case, whether you'd kept your friends or not, you'd pretty much be making a fresh start after college, anyway. So you're really not behind at all on that score. I managed to keep in touch with just one college friend for more than a couple of years after graduation, and it took a herculean effort on both our parts. People disperse.
You shouldn't have ceded her your friends; that was a mistake, but circumstance is wiping the slate clean for you. Start again, and don't make the same mistakes. That's all that life requires.
As for the degree, any four-year degree is worth a lot more than no four-year degree. You may eventually try out for a responsible job that doesn't necessarily require a college degree -- but I guarantee, that if the final decision is a toss-up between you and a guy who doesn't have a degree, you'll get it. If nothing else, a degree is proof that you have the ability to gather and process data, and then to synthesize insights from it. Which are more or less the basic requirements of more different jobs that I can count.
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