<p>I want to make more friends at college, but as I now know, making friends as an upperclassman with freshmen is no easy task. Last year, when i was a sophomore, freshman tend to cling to their other freshmen buddies making it really hard for me to get into their clique. Any advice for me this year to make some freshman buddies?</p>
<p>Why do you want freshman buddies? You’re a junior.</p>
<p>The one problem I have with these threads is that the people seem to be so desperate. They just want someone, anyone, to be their friends.</p>
<p>You will be much more successful if you focus on doing things that you enjoy. For example, if you really like tap dancing, get involved with the tap club. You will have more in common with the people there, and will be more likely to connect with someone. If not, don’t worry about it. There are literally thousands of students one nearly every college campus in the country. I can guarantee that unless you are a completely unlikable freak (i.e. child rapist), you will find someone with whom you get along. Heck, you might even be able to find a kindred spirit if you are a child rapist.</p>
<p>So, in short, people aren’t going to flock to you like iron shavings to a magnet. You need to put yourself out there. Remember: Anything worth having is worth working for.</p>
<p>The idea is to not emphasize the idea that you’re a junior or anything. Just be yourself, be cool when you introduce yourself to others, and be a nice guy in general.</p>
<p>I have a couple of good friends who are in their mid-late 20s because they went back to college after figuring out a few things in life. When I first met them, I had no idea that they were more than five years older than me. In any case, it didn’t matter, since the clicking really only depended on a few important things: we’re all college students taking the same class because we have the same interests, and we’d like to know more about each other.</p>
<p>It’s just your responsibility to reach out and become friends with the freshmen. Being younger, they’re not that socially experienced, and therefore, they won’t really do the stuff necessary to become friends with you. So, you have to make it happen.</p>