<p>No one seems to do anything alone at college, which is getting rather odd. I'm talking about simple things like grocery shopping, buying clothes at the mall, watching movies, and eating out or in the dining hall. </p>
<p>Do you feel as though you're being judged when you do any or all of these things without a friend?! </p>
<p>As I used to be quite an independent person, I didn't mind doing any of the aforementioned activities alone, but now the social situation is starting to make me feel a bit self-conscious at college.</p>
<p>Depends on what you’re doing: Grocery shopping, going to class, studying, eating in the dining hall or picnic table outside on campus, doing laundry, etc are all things that people tend to do without a huge group and no one is going to care.</p>
<p>if you show up to a movie theater, party or social event alone, it’s gonna be awkward.</p>
<p>even stuff like grocery shopping? sure, people might go with their bff/bf/gf or carpool with someone in their dorm, but it’s not something that people will jugde you for if you go by yourself.</p>
<p>“eating in the dining hall or picnic table”
…people do that alone? lol. i would feel like i was being watched the whole time :|</p>
<p>there was a sex & the city episode where carrie takes herself to dinner & a movie. i forget how it turned out, but i suppose the moral was ‘spend quality time with yourself’, or something, lol. i would probably try it out if i weren’t so paranoid :P</p>
<p>I eat by myself in the dining hall most of the time since I eat later than my roommates and for lunch, I’m usually in the library so I walk to the dining hall by myself. It is weird because everyone is eating with someone but I’m used to it now.</p>
<p>Don’t really like eating in the hall by myself so I usually bring it back to the dorm. If I can’t, then I just eat. Maybe whip out the phone and text somebody (or pretend to if the situation is that dire).</p>
<p>know exactly what you mean. it’s kind of ridiculous really… I don’t feel a need to have friends with me when I’m doing laundry… grocery shopping often happens in a group because of carpooling, but there’s definitely an avoidance of doing things alone. I feel awkward about it sometimes, but don’t think that everything has to be social.</p>
<p>College is different than high school and middle school with regards to eating in groups–everyone has different schedules and has different break times, so if you get food by yourself in the dining hall, if anyone notices you, they’ll assume that your friends are just at class–not that you don’t have any.</p>
<p>I think people have grown so scared of being seen as it outcast that they will go to the point of doing simple things with others. Personally, sometimes I go places with others. However, sometimes it does become rather annoying to wait and to be on other people’s time. I’ll never be scared to do something by myself.</p>
<p>This. I eat alone a lot of the times I’m on campus. It’s a common thing. I see people eating and studying alone. The only people I see that are socializing a lot at those who hang in groups, or those who have a significant other. The rest of the people I see around campus are walking alone, eating alone, etc. I actually got used to it quickly. For me the trouble is finding a place to sit at the dinning hall because everyone takes a table for themselves.</p>
<p>I’m use to doing mostly everything alone, grocery shopping, clothing shopping, eating, ect. Though I don’t think I’d go out to dinner alone (nice restaurant not dining hall) or a movie because it’s just sort of awkward.</p>