<p>Hey all, first post,</p>
<p>I'd like to know your opinions on meeting people at community colleges. Specifically people between 18-20. </p>
<p>I started in an out of state 4-year university but their program wasn't for me, so after a year I came home. Local 4-years can't take lower division transfers, so I decided to go to a CC. It seems most of the people at my CC are in their 30s, and haven't been in classes for years. Most have full-time jobs, many have kids. I can't find anything in common with them, at least enough to be friends. I've been going to this college for 2 semesters and so far have met very few people my age in my classes.
In my first college, I still didn't have many friends, but the friends I met shared several classes with me. That's basically how we met, "hey I saw you in that other class, and those other two classes, soo yeahh..." But I'm just taking Gen Ed classes now, and haven't met a person twice. </p>
<p>How can I track down friends/possible dates that are my age?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>Hire an Indian tracker?
Doesn’t really seem such a farfetched idea since you come off as the type who is already to the point of stalking people through bushes and around trees to catch them at an opportune moment to start a conversation.</p>
<p>Or you can look into club activities, even community colleges have them, some even have forms of student government that you can get involved with, and even campus life activities. Get involved with your school and community. Who cares if you wind up with a bunch of 30 year old friends, I have plenty, a couple 50 year old ones too.</p>
<p>I met friends at my CC that were older than me. I started about a month before my 17th birthday and I’ve only become friends with one person a year older than me. All the others were legal (22-ish) before I even 18. It was never a problem aside from a few baby jokes. I feel older than a lot of people my age so I click better with people a little older.</p>
<p>Talk to people in your classes, in the halls, and around campus in general. It’s harder to make friends but not impossible, especially with people in your major. I went from a CC to a small university and easily made friends at the small uni (I’m a commuter) within my major, maybe because we are sort of a tight knit group but it wasn’t hard at all, and I’m a commuter and a 23 year old mom so if I can do it, anyone can! :)</p>