<p>Not here, but apparently the chancellor of our school met his wife during orientation.</p>
<p>I still hang out with the one girl I met at orientation occasionally, but she is so quiet I can’t even tell if she has a personality. I like her well enough but don’t try to hang out with her very often because I really just don’t know what to make of her.</p>
<p>My roommate, on the other hand, is still best friends with someone she met at orientation.</p>
<p>I find it’s easier to make friends when you’re all thrown into a new and awkward situation. In all those “introduce yourself” groups I did when I started I became pretty good aquaitences with those people, not necessarily friends. I made friends with people who I had more stuff in common with… but it’s good to be on friendly terms with the people you meet at orientation. Cant wait to transfer and do it all over again! ahha</p>
<p>I don’t talk to anyone who was in my orientation but I still keep them as facebook friends haha. I took a summer program and bonded with everybody in the hall. However, once classes started in the fall, we started to drift away, except for a few people I’m close with. It happens because you live in different dorms, because you join different clubs, because you are in different majors. Orientation just tries to get you into the college mode, to expose you to things that it offers to first years. You do meet people and stuff and you bond with them for a couple of days but that’s about it unless you take the time to actually stay in close contact and hang out all the time. But I mean, there’s a TON of people in college, unless of course you go to a small school, so you’re going to meet new people from everywhere and anywhere. Don’t sweat it; just be comfortable with yourself and meet new people. You will find a group of people who will be your close friends sooner or later as long as you take the time to do so.</p>
<p>I met my best college friend during orientation in my community college. Eventually, he introduced me to a couple of his friends and I also met one girl after the semester begins in a college bookstore. Every Tuesday, maybe even Thursday, we meet up for lunch.</p>
<p>In my case, I met a friend within the first 2 minutes of the first orientation speech and we hit it off right away. We kicked it all through orientation, he was from out of state so we didn’t get to chill till school started, but we ended up joining the same fraternity and are now roommates.</p>
<p>Its really a hit or a miss whether or not you’ll meet your future friends.</p>
<p>Guess I got lucky</p>
<p>Good friends with the people I met during orientation? No. Friends with the people I met before orientation? Yeah, I guess.</p>
<p>My orientation occurred right before school, so we were essentially moved in and ready to go. My college encourages “hall bonding” and orientation was mostly about getting to know the people on your hall - not really anyone else on campus. I was terribly homesick all through orientation and really worried about making new friends (same school for 12 years). It was disastrous. I knew no one, so I ended up spending most of the free time during my orientation with a friend from high school in her dorm. I actually met one good person in her dorm during orientation and that was it - I hardly knew anyone on my hall going into the start of school (talk about a miserable first couple of days - waking up, going to class, and going to the library without having any new friends). </p>
<p>After orientation, my hall dropped the whole “hall bonding” experience (we’re pretty diverse in terms of interests) and made friends with other people. For me, I made my friends through my club sports team. But, I’ve not had the typical freshman experience. However, there are definitely cliques on my hall that met during orientation and are still really good friends.</p>
<p>No, I never saw most of the people again who were at my orientation. A few have become acquaintances.</p>