<p>To all college students: is your social life better as a college student or was it better when you were in high school?</p>
<p>I'm currently a hs junior, and my social life honestly sucks. Ever since freshman year, I've had to adjust "cliques" based on my classes and activities, so I've never had a stable "group". And especially this year, I haven't been extremely active with my friends -- marching band (fall), swim team (winter), and now work & volunteer, not to mention the little time I have left to prep for SAT & ACT, all consume my life, leaving me virtually no time for "friend time". Needless to say, I've been distant with my friends.</p>
<p>Are your social lives better now in college than it was in hs? Also, do you feel you have better/closer friends now?</p>
<p>Better as a college student, and it's definitely possible yours will be too. If your problem is that you don't have time to be with friends, then college will definitely help - you're essentially living with your friends all the time. It enabled me to become good friends with people in a short amount of time. Seriously, college has a really nice social atmosphere. :) So don't worry too much about it!</p>
<p>I don't have closer friends.. In high school I had a best friend I was really close to, and I don't have that in college (yet). But my social life is better, if that makes any sense. It's easier to go out with people when they're all right there, etc.</p>
<p>Yes, college is so much better!! I have more real true friends here than I did in HS (I'm only really still good friends with like 3 people from my HS). I go out more, I've had relationships, I have a LIFE. Yes, school is harder, I would know I have 4 midterms this week on top of being dog sick right now. But life is just better now; no dealing with stupid bull sh-- anymore from stuck up cliquey peeps, or being the "nerd" in the class just because I'm not into Laguna Beach and don't dress like an Abercrombie clone, or getting made fun of for being younger than everyone else. All my friends are really awesome, we like alot of the same tv shows/genres/etc and it's just cool to not have to be around jerks all the time. There ARE still jerks in college, but they tend to flock together and so you don't really have to deal with them much if you don't want to.</p>
<p>This time around, I'm not in it for the social stuff, and so my social life is pretty nonexistent. But that's my choice.</p>
<p>My first try at college, though, involved a much better social life than I had in high school. I disliked almost everyone in high school (my graduating class had 99 people in it) and they disliked me as well, so I chose a big diverse school that none of my classmates would be caught dead at (I actually got called into the office to discuss my choice, because it was a private school and they advertised which colleges their graduates attended, and they thought my choosing this school would actually hurt enrollment ... too bad for them, then), and I found people who were interested in what I was interested in, and I found other people who were interesting and became interested in what they were doing.</p>
<p>I had to try, though. In high school I could just hang out and see the same people over and over again all day. If you choose a reasonably large school, then during the period where you're taking a lot of intro classes you're going to see a lot more people for a lot less time. It helped to live in a dorm, but going to clubs was better.</p>
<p>My high school was full of superficial 'tards who had no motivation in life. In college (if you chose the right school), you are surrounded by peers with similar likes and ambitions. How could it not be better?</p>
<p>Plus, you just have more time and freedom in college =P</p>
<p>Big state school (33,000 people). No one gives a damn about you or anything else, there is no room for intimate relationships, just postmodernist, petty interaction.</p>
<p>I didn't really have friends in high school, but my social life in college has pretty much been handed to me on a silver platter. Maybe I just grew up. ::shrugs::</p>
<p>I had a primary group of good friends in HS. After i graduated, i worked and took a few classes at a CC. I am now at a large university but don't have a whole lot of friends here.</p>
<p>i think i had had the best social life at the end of HS when i had my little break from school.</p>
<p>In my first college, I had a much better social life. Parties, bars, drinking, and sports were visible, but weren't the main aspect of the University, and even the party crowd was mostly laid back, cool, and friendly. My closest friends, however, were mad studiers (mostly pre-meds); probably because I'm serious about my studies as well (although my major isn't as intense as pre-med). We had similar interests, watched the same shows, and shared tastes in music. I remember my social life being filled with having dinner with and doing plenty of things during evenings and weekends with friends, which led to meeting more people who became friends. I was able to make very close friends during the first semester there. </p>
<p>However, due to finances, I had to transfer to a typical big-sized in-state college (the one I'm currently in) where sports, parties, bars, and drinking were the main attraction for students. When I first came here, my social life went to hell in a hand basket. The people ranged from rude, snobbish, and self-centered to cliquish, hateful, and prejudice. It was basically a repeat of high school, but I had to live in it 24/7. My grades especially suffered during the first semester that I transferred and am working my a** off to recover. The only thing that's changed is that I've just become more resilient and learned to cope with it, and I've just turned 21, so I can actually go to bars now as a medium of socializing (nearly everyone under 21 here has fake IDs, so I wasn't able to hang out with people as much before). I am able to visit my friends from my old university, but those are the only times after transferring that I can truly remember being happy and content with the college life.</p>