<p>Any tips or advice or just sharing your experience would be nice. </p>
<p>Ok I was home schooled for 4 years and now I am going to college and staying in the dorms, so not only will I be living on my own for the first time, I will also experience socializing again (which lets just say social skills are low) I am more nervous about being social than being on my own though, when I went to orientation I felt like everyone knew each other from high school but yet I didn't know anyone (due to me being from a different state and home schooled when I moved to Ohio), people quickly found their groups and I was left just jumping back and forth casually talking to everyone. I guess you could say I am a nerd who plays video games loves anime, but I also love playing sports and working out in the gym. I know I may have a chance in making friends in the gym who are jocks but I really want to make some friends who have more of my nerd side interest's in common (but I am attending Walsh University in Ohio which seems like a great school but I didn't see anyone who is like me and seen no clubs so far that have my nerd side interests lol)</p>
<p>can anyone here relate to what I am going through? and if you been through this, how did you over come it?</p>
<p>Make friends in classes. Maybe they have an anime club. Maybe you can become the founder of one. </p>
<p>I can kind of relate. I wasn’t very social until my third year of college. I only had a few friends but they were a bad influence. Anyway, good luck. Knowing a lot about sports is easy guy-talk.</p>
<p>ya my school is mainly about sports so knowing about sports would help but I don’t really watch sports, much rather be playing them xD, as for starting a club idk if I am the leader type to start a club and keep it going but then again idk what all goes into managing a club at college.</p>
<p>Don’t be so quick to judge people and discount others.
Go to lame dorm events, school spirit rallys.
Invite others to join you.
The more the better in the beginning.</p>
<p>Say yes when you get asked to go to dinner, out even though you planned to do laundry or do some gaming.
If you tell people no, you won’t get asked again.
Nothing more annoying than begging people to go places.
If I asked you to go to a party and you say “I’ll think about it”, I won’t be asking you to go anywhere again, ever.
Say yes and have a good time.</p>
<p>i know a lot of people who were home schooled. you will meet people in classes. the dorms. you will see people around doing things you like to do. dont worry, you are going to meet a lot of people as long as you are friendly and open</p>
<p>thx for the support I appreciate it! I guess another thing that makes me feel somewhat nervous is that they pair me with 2cd and 3rd years for my dorm room mates, I thought they may pair me with room mates that’s a freshman and we could maybe enjoy the new experience together, but hopefully this room mate will be cool when I meet him, I already called him and briefly talked to him just to see how he was like, did txt him to see if he wanted to hangout or something just to get to know each other better, but no txt back so idk if he just doesn’t have txt or just isn’t polite enough to say no thank you xD. but I suppose on a bright side, I am in the upper class dorm (idk how I am not in honors, at least I don’t think I am unless they put me in it) so the dorms looked nice from what I can see from the pictures online.</p>
<p>I wasn’t homeschooled, but I went to a very small private school and chose to attend a college out of state where I’m only the 2nd person from my high school to attend and currently the only one from my high school there. I only knew a couple people I had met at my audition day (I’m a music major), so I really didn’t know anyone either. I lived in a freshmen dorm last year. Orientation wasn’t the best for me as far as meeting people either because most likely, the people you talk to at orientation you won’t really see after that. You’ll make better friends on your floor, in your major, in your classes, in clubs or music ensembles and other things with similar interests, or in a fraternity or sorority if you choose to join one.</p>