<p>I like my friends here, but I'm definitely ready to meet some new people, and I hope that I can find more people with interests similar to mine when I'm not living in the bible belt (admittedly, a pretty liberal part of said belt, but, still). However, then I wonder if I'm expecting too much....</p>
<p>let's be real guys. having a social life will always take some effort on your part. don't expect a great social life to just "happen" once you get to college. reach out to people.</p>
<p>don't expect a great social life to just "happen" once you get to college
^ That was very helpful. Thanks</p>
<p>Thank you all of you guys. And especially for the corrected calculations;)</p>
<p>Also, don't expect that people will be better informed, necessarily...I go to a school that sends a huge chunk of kids to top schools. They are smart, but still don't know what they're talking about a lot of the time...</p>
<p>Actually, the prestigious colleges are all about eugenics and social connections. People go to Harvard to find a mate that will most likely be successful and whose children will be successful, and to make the social connections necessary to further their career, thus maintaining and building upon the socio-economic status of their parents. </p>
<p>Now most people don't plan this out and they make friends in college just for the friendship part of it, but that is the result. And if you ask your parents about the different effects of their high school social life and college, they would probably say their high school social life was preparation of their college connection-making. So it is different, not better or worse. </p>
<p>So it is more important to be social in college than in high school, and there is many more avenues and opportunities to meet people in college, though no one will shove them in your face, you will have to take them. If you are comparing the 'intelligent' social life aspect of college with high school, then it is all about where you go.</p>