<p>Haha, reminds me of a king of the hill episode where a guy made it rich when he started a business cleaning up dirty frat bathrooms. HAhahhahahaa. </p>
<p>Ok here goes, I’ll tell you what I tell my brother: I’ve been in community college a while so I don’t know about this magic happening, but socializing in humanity has no exact recipe. Not everyone lives a day to day life around a group of a half-dozen-ish people that are like their extended family. A lot of people have a close friend or two, and then tons of casual acquaintances that you give your phone # and they never call you XD</p>
<p>That, or practically everyone I know is a freak. It wouldn’t surprise me. </p>
<p>Still, I wouldn’t say that having any particular form of social life is the norm or abnormal - your best route is to probably do whatever gets you the most satisfaction and meaningfulness in life. :)</p>
<p>I’m waiting for the “transferring junior experience” lol. It should be ok - some of my best friends in college started off by a chance happening and developed into awesome friendships over the course of 1 semester, OTOH that same exact formula has given me a few really super casual friends that I haven’t heard from again XD</p>
<p>Ok. Thanks everyone! Your answers were like little slaps in the face. Really, what I wanted to know was if people still made those close friends or those bonds outside of freshman year, which I thought was the norm. I didn’t really have that happen so I thought something was wrong. But nice to know that you don’t have to live that stereotype!</p>
<p>Gotta agree with hahvad getting that close group of friends is just like high school Most people I know that have a group like that knew the people in high school and met them in middle or elementary school. Maybe some people meet people in college and form that group right away but I don’t know anyone that did. In my first year I met a lot of people, but would only consider 2 my friends. I’m transferring and its something I always planned on doing so I didn’t really try to get close with anybody (These two just got past my wall I guess lol).</p>
<p>In High School I didn’t form that close group until Junior year and then I formed another with different people senior year. I’d say I have these 2 groups and maybe 3 others that contain like 2 other people lol. Forming groups can be easy or really hard. It depends on the people and the situation that causes you to become a group. For 1 group me and my best friend met one kid and his best friend one day in the library. We saw them again the next day and just started hanging out. Over time one of us has met some other kid and brought him into the group. Thats just one example of how it can happen.</p>
<p>It seems to me, that unless you go to an out of state school you’ll chill with the same people you did in high school and slowly over time you’ll meet new people.</p>
<p>Hmm, didn’t think about the high school situation kind of thing. I made close friends right off the bat though, but I went to an extremely tiny school. Like a class of 35. And compared to a uni of 24,000+ I guess it just takes time and luck to meet that niche of people.</p>