<p>I have heard people say that all of freshman year is for making new friends and finding your "group". But everywhere around me, I see people with their same friends all the time, and they are usually people that they have been friends with since the first week. So what's with that? Do these groups change over time? Or are most of your friends in college gonna be the people that you befriended in your first week here?</p>
<p>Welcome to College. I had the same thinking as you as one point but once reality hits you, it hits you.</p>
<p>And 95% of the time, the groups don’t change. Well, freshman year, your “friends” from fall semester won’t be your same “friends” in the spring semester.</p>
<p>**** friends. you don’t need em.</p>
<p>This thread is depressing.</p>
<p>^That it is.</p>
<p>I found my core group of friends Spring semester, but it was more my Fall friends getting pulled into a larger group. Also my school has a lot of Spring transfers.</p>
<p>It takes different amounts of time for different people. Some make all their friends from their floor and are friends with them all four years. Yay for them. Some hang out with people from their floor for a while before really finding their niche (me). Some just have to find that club or that one person who introduces them to a bunch of people. When this actually happens also varies enormously. Just don’t write yourself off and assume you’ll never have any friends now. You’ll get there.</p>
<p>Depends. It’s not like there’s a law that states you have to stay friends with the same people.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore and I have exactly two friends from freshman year this year. I talk to the people I considered friends freshman year, but I rarely hang out with them. I found my new friends in my new dorm and classes this year. </p>
<p>So no, it’s not true. Everyone is always willing to make a friend, you just have to find someone you click with. People constantly saying “YOU HAVE TO MAKE FRIENDS FRESHMAN YEAR,” and especially fall semester of freshman year, is false, and often just becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If you think sophomores are unfriendly to people outside their group, you’ll become unfriendly to people outside of your group and never make new friends. </p>
<p>Even freshman year I saw the groups from first week changing constantly. Stop listening to people who say that you have to make friends your first week, or first semester, or first year. If you keep listening to them, you’re never going to put yourself out there and try to make friends.</p>