<p>is it really hard to make friends once you are going to be a junior? Are people already in closely formed groups and don't want to add another friend? I am in the second semester of my sophomore year (a new transfer this semester) and have yet to find a lasting group of friends who are either accepting of new students to their clique or people who I'd want to be friends with in college or beyond ( I am not that picky). I transferred out of my old college last year because I had a bad time there even though I liked the college. Its a long story but was placed on a sub free floor and had a bad experience with my sports team, definitely not the college experience I hoped for.
I commuted to my current college and was part time last semester because I was having surgery.
Joining clubs is not an option at this point in the year for my school, and I thought originally my suitemates wouldve been nice friends but they tend to be cliquey and leave me out. I met other people in class who live in my dorm and also have been friendly to ulitmately cliquey. I have tendonitis so I can't do a sport this semester but I am joining a team in the fall. I also am starting a job soon so I hope to meet people.<br>
Its hard to not have reliable friends at this time, and I am afraid I won't ever make the close friends like my sister had made her freshman year of college. Can you really make close friends at this point in college?</p>
<p>First of all, there are always going to be other transfer students who are in a similar situation. And nobody ever said it was bad to befriend that lonely-looking freshman sitting by himself in the corner.</p>
<p>Say you are at the campus coffee shop, and the line is extremely long, no harm is done by commenting on the wait to the guy standing in front of you in line. You might never know it but your truest friends could be right under your nose at any minute, you just have to put forth some effort to begin the friendship.</p>
<p>I’d offer you the best of luck, but I doubt you need it. You can do it.
-Jason</p>
<p>I think generally people are open to forming friendships in college, no matter what year you enter. As long as your personality clicks with theirs, I don’t believe there will be any objections.</p>
<p>I am worried about the same thing here. I may end up transferring, and I can’t help but be bothered by it. It seems like, at the start of the year, everyone WANTS to make new friends. they’re all away from their home, families, friends, etc.</p>
<p>I agree that it is possible… but it really does seem a little harder and less fun :(</p>
<p>I’ll eventually be a transfer student and I think that, though it won’t be as “easy” to make friends like in freshman year, it is very possible. Like another poster said, there are other transfers in your same position, and having a “click” woth people helps to. Just be friendly and generally outgoing, everything will be all right :).</p>
<p>MY closest friend on campus I met when I was a sophomore. She was a freshie. my other closest friend she met me when she was a jr so don’t worry about it. The friends I had in my freshman year I barely get to meet anymore rofl</p>