<p>I visited a close friend at his college to have lunch and just check out the campus and see a college for the first time. It's just an average school, not too hard to get into, and I'm not super interested in attending myself. Anyways, we went to the library, rec center, science labs, and other random buildings just so I could see things. Also his dorm building. Just what I observed is that everyone seemed to be alone. Obviously I wasn't surprised by that in the library, but while we walked through the campus, it seemed everyone was walking by themselves. It just seemed a bit solitary. I am just wondering is this normal? I realize there's independency at college and everyone needs time alone to get work done, but it seemed pretty lonely overall. We went to a cafeteria and most people were eating alone, but there were some groups of friends being loud while eating their lunch. Do most people in college eat alone? I just guess I'm so used to high school where everyone is always with their group of friends walking through the halls and everything. Can anyone give me the scoop? I'm also assuming it's much different from college to college, but in general am I right or no?</p>
<p>Also, I didn't stay for the night so is it safe to assume people just get together in the evenings and the days are mostly by yourself? Does that make sense? My friend says he's been to a lot of parties so I'm not trying to sound like I think there's no social interaction, it just seemed that everyone was by themselves during the day. Sorry to ramble, just curious</p>
<p>forever alone as well. but you know what, at the beginning of the year i ate with people, but i eventually stopped. honestly, it’s too much effort for me to have have to go ask people OMG WHEN CAN YOU EAT? IS THIS A GOOD TIME? NO? WHAT ABOUT THIS TIME? OH YOU MIGHT BE IN CLASS? HOW ABOUT THIS TIME? OMG I CAN’T EAT WITH LESS THAN 5 PEOPLE AT A TIME BECAUSE I’LL LOOK LIKE A LOSER</p>
<p>I eat breakfast with the same person every day, and get together for lunch with a group of people a few times a week. Other than that, during the week, I’m pretty much solo all the time. Then again, my school’s too big to just “run into” someone you know.</p>
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<p>I lol’d… that’s so 100% true. Unfortunately I still do it >.<</p>
<p>People have different schedules, so naturally you’re going to be on your own during the day, going to your classes. It’s not like high school where you have a bunch of classes with your friends, especially if you go to a big school. Like another poster said, a lot of people eat alone because it’s a hassle trying to coordinate schedules when you just want to grab a sandwich. I have noticed that more people eat together in the evenings though. Probably because hardly anyone has class then. So it really just depends on the school, your schedule, and whether or bot you care to have company. I don’t feel like I’m alone all the time at all.</p>
<p>I have a breakfast buddy that I eat breakfast every day in which I have class.</p>
<p>For lunch I usually eat alone, or sometimes I run into people I know. It’s weird most of my friends or people that I know have the same schedule to eat.</p>
<p>Dinner I usually get texted or text, but sometimes I kinda like eating alone in my room, especially if it’s a friday night and my roommate is gone. Something about that is very relaxing. But if my roommate is still in the room, it feels very awkward and the smell isnt that great.</p>
<p>There are only a few people at breakfast but I eat with them. Throughout the day I am usually alone - half the week I come back to the dorm to eat and I eat with those people, and half the week I purposefully ate lunch alone so I could read. I was usually alone until dinner, which I always ate with friends. And then depending on the night I was usually alone or with a study buddy after dinner - there’s work to be done. But I don’t feel like I’m alone all that often. It all depends on the schedule of your friends. My friends and I corresponded well last quarter, and so even if we were just silently studying, I tended to be with someone. I think a lot of freshman have this fear of being alone that’s really unwarranted - you’ll need to be alone for work and for sanity; there’s nothing wrong with eating, doing chores, studying, or even relaxing alone.</p>
<p>I’m too lazy to make time for breakfast in the mornings, and for lunch, my group of friends coordinates schedules when picking out classes (seriously) so we can do lunch together. Dinner’s dependent on my mood; plus this semester, my stomach has definitely shrunk so I’m normally not even hungry for dinner, but I’ll still go sit with my friends and chat.</p>
<p>As for your personal visit, was it recently? It might have been finals time for that college. I noticed that I started spending way more time alone when I was preparing for/in the middle of finals, because even time eating was time that could be spent studying.</p>
<p>I eat alone 90% of the time, because when I’m hungry I want to eat, not waste time texting people to see if they want to join me. Plus, our dining commons has a TV so I just watch whatever sporting event is on. I don’t really care. Plenty of people eat alone.</p>
<p>I actually normally eat with other people - I either just go with people right from class, or find a few floormates who want to grab dinner, or something. I usually eat breakfast with the same people as well. However, I go to a small school so it’s probably easier to coordinate, since even when I go to the dining hall by myself there are probably people I know.</p>
<p>That being said - I often walk to and from class or the library by myself, unless I happen to be with a person who is in that class/is going to the same place with me. I don’t mind it at all. But I wouldn’t say I’m alone “most” of the time - most of the time, I feel like I’m surrounded by people, which is something I really love.</p>
<p>I think I was alone most of the time in college, but definitely not all. I ate alone in the caf sometimes simply because my schedule didn’t mesh with others’. My freshman and sophomore years I would check with friends to see when they were headed to the caf to eat lunch or dinner, and go with them. But by junior and senior year, more people moved off campus and didn’t have meal plans, and the ones that stayed had very different schedules, so I ate alone sometimes.</p>
<p>Between the hours of 9 and 5 I was mostly walking around by myself, because if you saw me walking I was going to class. Sometimes I’d walk with some friends - particularly my roommate, who was in the same section of a first-year core class with me, but after freshman year I didn’t have any roommates (I was an RA). After hours usually you’ll see more groups together, going to activities or parties or to visit friends in other dorm rooms.</p>
<p>When you get older, you start to take pleasure in solitude and even seek it out.</p>
<p>it is a lot more common to eat alone in college than in high school because of the varying schedules and such. Me - I’m just impatient and don’t care to wait for whoever may or may not be hungry when I feel like eating. Plus, most of my friends no longer have meal plans as they live off campus (and I am one of the few that still is on campus/has a meal plan). I eat with friends when I run into them, but eating with friends takes up a lot of time (and when you are super busy, it is time better spent elsewhere). For obvious reasons many friends don’t have the same classes (unlike high school where most students are required to take almost all of the same things) so it makes it a lot less likely for people to know people in their classes/walk with them etc.</p>
<p>Actually, at this point in my college career I’m rarely alone. And this is not to say I have some awesome social life or something. When I’m on campus, I hang out with the same group of guys as we all share the same major, and as a result, nearly share all the same classes together. As an engineering major, it’s much more convenient to do homework and study in groups, which is what consumes the majority of my days. As a result, we will all eat together and often hang out outside of doing school-related stuff. If I’m not on campus, I’m with my fiance.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman at a small school and rarely eat alone. Here, people normally eat alone at breakfast, but almost everyone eats in groups for lunch and dinner. My friends are all on the same corridor though, so coordination is easy and we’re all always together anyway. I’d say most of the “schoolday hours” except lunchtime I’m alone or in class, but after 2pm I’m almost always in one of my friends’ rooms or they’re in my room just sitting and doing homework together or talking.</p>
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