<p>Its been my first week and I've made soo many acquaintances and have gotten soo many numbers but very few (if any) friends/close friends. </p>
<p>Its just a little scary for me. Especially since my group back home, from high school, was so tight and chill. How long did this take you?</p>
<p>I didn’t have a real, good, close family group until my second semester.</p>
<p>I mean, I had friends, and I hung out with people all the time, but it wasn’t the tight-knit group or anything til about January and on that I started getting really close with those people…but once that happened, this group of people literally became my family, so the focus shifted from it sucking that I didn’t have a tight-knit group first semester to how wonderful if was to have that then.</p>
<p>I consider the group of friends I have now close friends. I became friends with these people early my second semester but didn’t feel really close with them until my second year when we all banded together again in the fall after not seeing each other all summer. You are not going to make “friends/close friends” in a week. It’s okay. If you’ve made acquaintances and have exchanged numbers with people, you are making GREAT progress. Just keep hanging out with people and see what clicks and what doesn’t, and keep taking opportunities to meet new people. It’ll happen for you in no time.</p>
<p>I met most of my good friends in my sophomore year. I had friends to hang out with freshman year but there was high turn over every quarter. The main friends I’d been hanging out with freshman year also turned into utter jackasses over spring break and I have no idea why. </p>
<p>I met two of my really good friends in sophomore/junior year. I met my best friends in senior year. Of all the people I met in college I only go out of my way (this so far has included international air travel) to visit friends I met in senior year. </p>
<p>You will probably make and lose friends a lot over the next few years because all of you will be changing so much. I wouldn’t stress over not having a BFF yet as it’s only a few weeks into the year. Plus, the beginning of every fall for the next few years is going to be that magical time where you can randomly introduce yourself to people on the bus or in the DH and it won’t be weird.</p>
<p>It took me the first half of freshman year to find my first best friend and almost until the end of freshman year until I found the rest of my best friends. You’ve been there a week.</p>
<p>I’m in week five and I feel like there are some people that I’m going to stay friends with on my crew team. But it took that long.</p>
<p>As far as close individual friends, it was probably November or December til I had 1 really good friend (in addition to a bunch of acquaintances haha). I made a couple close friends after winter break.</p>
<p>As for “group” of friends, it wasn’t til like April- they were a good group of friends through one of my clubs, but a lot of them graduated at the end of the year(they were seniors). Talk about good timing haha. We still hang out though. </p>
<p>But yeah, with many of my friends having graduated or transferred (thats what you get when you have a lot of OOS friends at OOS public schools), this will be another interesting year…we’ll see what happens lol</p>
<p>For me, if there’s anything resembling a group, it’d be my fraternity.</p>
<p>Outside of it, I just have several close friends and people who know each other, but the groups aren’t well-defined like they are back in high school. Lots more flexibility though :)</p>
<p>Main difference here is that cliques are very much a high-school thing, and in the college world, friendship isn’t so exclusive.</p>
<p>Bah. I’m still trying to find my place here. I do have a few acquaintances (most of whom I met through group projects), but otherwise… no, I don’t have any friends here. And I am a sophomore, too.</p>
<p>I really didn’t make close friends until sophomore year. It varies a lot for each person.</p>
<p>I found my closest group in the first two or three months, but I know a lot of people who didn’t really find each other until second semester. It’s also different from high school in that you don’t have to have all your close friends be from the same friend group…my closest friends are from a bunch of different friend groups and it’s great, because we’re not all intertwined in each others’ drama and such.</p>
<p>Everyone makes friends at different rates. Don’t feel pressured to make super close friends right away. It’s important to remember that people are feeling really guarded the first few weeks and may not be acting like themselves, so don’t judge people on how they act right at the beginning. Also, even if you do make a few close friends right away, make sure you stay open to making other close friends. I had a very distinct friend group first semester but my current best friend is someone I met through my classes/major and doesn’t really know anybody in my friend group.</p>
<p>One last thing: don’t feel boxed in to the high school definition of “best friend” or “friend group.” It’s totally okay to have varying levels of friends, some of whom you may spend every minute with/live with, some who you catch up with once or twice a week. There is definitely a range, so just relax and remember that everyone else is probably in a similar situation.</p>
<p>I’ve been here for a little over a month, and have only 2 “close” friends. I have a few people that I can talk to or eat lunch with, but only those 2 (sometimes 3, she’s a bit flaky) that I regularly hang out with.</p>
<p>My worry is that my school is EXTREMELY small (less than 2,000 students). I’m just afraid that everybody is already forming their little “cliques” and I won’t get in. Granted, I’m planning on rushing a sorority in January (we don’t have fall rush, it’s always been deferred), so hopefully then I’ll meet some people. I just hate sitting in my dorm alone on Saturday nights. it sucks.</p>