<p>Definetly join a sport.</p>
<p>You joined academic clubs. You need some chill time. And I recomend, for personal freetime, AFTER you make friends (necessary for a good college exp.), that you get some video game like halo or WoW that lots of friends might play. I full out recomend intramural sports. Even if you aren't good they're fun.</p>
<p>Okay so my schedule (today) went like this</p>
<p>8 am - wake up
8-8:30 - shower, brush teeth, grab some food to go at the dining hall
8:30-11 - homework/study
11-12 - nothing
12-2:30 - class
2:45-3:45 - homework
3:45-4:45 - read some of the brothers karamazov (not for any class)
4:45-12 - free time
12 - go to sleep</p>
<p>(that was in regards to gemstars post)</p>
<p>If you are shy already, please please please, dont become a video game kid. Even if you are not good at sports as GIME said, join a sport as those are often very easy ways of meeting new people and killing time.</p>
<p>i said do it after for any personal freetime. like that 11-12 hour there. just some chill time. i dont mean the freaks that miss class for it.</p>
<p>Well...in the time he could be playing video games, I would suggest...going for a jog or hitting the gym or joyriding around town with friends or anything but video games to kill time. I look at video games as a "luxury" when I'm at college, something I do to "treat" myself when there is absolutely no alternative around campus and at my campus there is nothing to do, but I still don't play video games all that much.</p>
<p>its just like watching tv or 'joyriding'. the latter one being much more costly nowadays</p>
<p>Shrug, I guess I just look down on the majority of video game kids.</p>
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<p>Don't use this as an excuse, honestly. I'm a pretty shy person too, but it's college now, you're just as new as everybody else. Nobody has preconceptions about you, and nobody will care if you walk up and start talking to them. That's what it's all about and it's a good way to make friends. The worst that could happen is you don't talk to them again, otherwise you'll end up with some friends.</p>
<p>College is WAY too cliqueish. The freshmen have already formed their little cliques by the time I got there for my first class on Monday.</p>
<p>I can work, attend 3.5 hours of class, study, hit the gym, and have lunch with a buddy and still be insanely bored. Right now it's after midnight and I've been up with no real purpose for four hours.</p>
<p>I know I have a chronic case of post high school depression, but this has nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with my life anymore and I'm definitely hating college more than ever right now. So much that I don't think I'll continue past this semester.</p>
<p>No pool hall? Bowling alley? Roller disco? Shuffleboard?</p>
<p>I know there's no pool table on campus. There are two good bowling alleys not far from campus but I don't have anyone to bowl with (my best friends on campus don't like to bowl). I have no idea what roller disco and shuffleboard are, please explain.</p>
<p>Maybe I should petition for a pool table?</p>
<p>A roller disco is where everyone goes and roller skates around strobe lights and dances to music! Add in cheesey themes and it makes for some hilarious memories.</p>
<p>I am unable to skate, so that wouldn't work...</p>
<p>Any theories on what shuffleboard is?</p>
<p>A jolly game that old people play that involves a board, some broom like things and discs.</p>
<p>I definetly suggest rollerdisco though. Everyone loves a good roller disco. Even if you can't skate, you can be the person who screams and distracts people as they fly by, often causing comedic accidents.</p>
<p>To quote Animal House:</p>
<p>"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily."</p>
<p>Better listen to me, I'm in medical school.</p>
<p>I don't drink. I think that's one of the things seperating me from my classmates.</p>
<p>Don't drink.</p>
<p>Instead, get really involved in some EC, don't just join a club but go for a leadership position. Alternatively, get an internship or research position. That will eat up some time. But really wait till after you have your first test to see how much time you actually have.</p>
<p>Get involved somehow. Seriously. No matter how shy you are, there are other shy people too doing ECs. And some people re just hoping for someone to take a moment and say "hi" to them. why don't you try and be that person?</p>
<p>Drinking is overrated anyways. Living on campus last year with people who just wanted to "get $#itty! yeaaa!!!" is kind of lame, and even though i did join in at times, it's sucks to puke in your garbage can the next afternoon and just be starting my day at 2pm. By next year, many of them will have calmed down a bit anyways.</p>
<p>Also, on facebook, there probably is a group at your school for people who think drinking is dumb, and dont drink or do drugs. Check out the members, and maybe there's someone in your classes in that group. then you can have someone to relate to you on something other than beer pong and vodka.</p>
<p>You just started...you'll likely have more homework as you go along further, and during other semesters your schedule will be different. It's probably just that you're so used to high school and having to be there 6-7 hours a day and then come home and do homework and whatever else, which gives you a lot less free time. </p>
<p>I never bought the excuses of people who claim to have no time to do anything but study, and even that they can't finish and so they sleep 5 hours a night, every night. Numbers don't just work out. 168 hours in every week. Usually people take 15 credits which is 15 hours per week at class, and if you sleep for 8 hours every night that leaves about 100 hours left over. Even if you lived up to the 1 hour of class = 3 hours of homework maximum, you still have over half that time left. </p>
<p>I don't honestly remember what I did with all my free time over the years, but it was probably a whole lot of nothing...much like I am doing right now. ;)</p>