<p>Sit with people you don’t know in the dining hall- they will be happy to meet a new person.</p>
<p>Chat with people before and after in class. Say hi to people in your residence hall. </p>
<p>Don’t be worried if a few people give you the cold shoulder. There are groups which like to look down on others. Ignore them. </p>
<p>These groups might include: the local New England prep crowd who want to tighten their social circle (via the private club Hasty Pudding), not expand it; unfriendly New Yorkers who want to believe their NYC years give them carte blanche to sneer at others; Euro hipsters who, once they arrive at Harvard, proceed to condemn all things American (government, music, food, drinking age, clothes).</p>
<p>Yes, this is a generalization, but nonetheless you will notice these types.</p>