<p>I'm just wondering how other freshmen are doing socially now that it's been a couple months. What's your friend situation like? Do you have close friends, do you hang out with people a lot, etc? And how much do you keep in touch with friends from home?</p>
<p>Things are going alright for me. I’m not nearly as close to or comfortable with people here as I was with friends at home, but I have to keep reminding myself that it’s only been a month and a half, compared to the four years I had with high school friends.</p>
<p>I have one friend who I would consider close. Again, we’re not as close as I was with my best friends from home, but at this rate we definitely could be, and in the not too distant future. There are a couple other people who I’m fairly comfortable with and who I have a lot of fun with, and then there are several others who I’m less close to but like hanging out with when we get the chance. The people I’ve mentioned (who all live on my floor, by the way) are the ones I would consider friends; beyond them, there are other people I talk to but they’re more acquaintances than friends.</p>
<p>I hang out with my one close friend pretty often, even though that usually just means sitting in the lounge on our laptops and talking. We’ve also gone out the last couple weekends. I also go out with the other friends maybe one night per weekend on average. Or sometimes we’ll hang out at our dorm.</p>
<p>For a while, my best friend and I were texting on a pretty regular basis, and we would Skype or talk on the phone maybe once a week. Lately we haven’t talked quite as much, but we also both went home and saw each other last weekend, and we’re both going to spending weekends visiting each other before we’re home again for Thanksgiving. With my other friends, we talk maybe a couple times a week. I mean, sometimes we won’t talk for a week or more, but then we might talk several days in a row. That’s mostly just texting and Facebook.</p>
<p>I have two close friends, a couple mid-tierers, and then just whom I know from my classes but study with often.</p>
<p>A lot of acquaintances and only a couple I can really call friends.</p>
<p>I don’t have what I would consider a close friend yet. But I have many of those “mid-tier” friends. I am hoping I do gain a best buddy. So far I have two “good” one. But making friends is a long process.</p>
<p>I really only have 1 good friend. We hangout daily. Everyone else is simply an acquaintance. I have never been good at making friends since I’m a bit shy. I really hope things start looking up so that I don’t always have to depend on my 1 good friend to eat lunch/dinner with everyday :(</p>