<p>this is a joke thread. Simply put.</p>
<p>This isn't a joke thread im serious</p>
<p>people at my school arent very accomodating and i get lonely as hell</p>
<p>I hope you got some good advice from this thread. You can PM me for extra advice.</p>
<p>I moved all the time, every year and a half growing up, three middle schools, two high schools</p>
<p>Something that can help is volunteering at the school...seriouslly...they need help in the library, the office, talk to your counselor...</p>
<p>Teams need assistants, too</p>
<p>I know it doesn't sound like the coolest stuff, but its better than eating in the john.</p>
<p>It is VERY ODD that clubs don't start until November. Most HS I know have all kinds off stuff starting right away.</p>
<p>Anyway, what skills do you have? And the job thing is a good idea.</p>
<p>What got me through? I played oboe and flute and worked. Being a band geek got me through all my moves</p>
<p>It really depends on the person. I know back in the day, I know back in the day (haha..I'm actually saying back in the day, and I'm only 15) I use to be really shy and I had a hard time making friends. Then I got fed up with it, and I changed my mentality to "I shouldn't want to be friends with people who don't want to be friends with me, they should want to be my friends." People change once the sense that you could care less about them.</p>
<p>i eat lunch alone in the library (we're not supposed 2 eat there lol) or with this group of my friends that dont really talk but rather study during lunch. and i do that because i am deaf and i cant have a conversation when its with more than one person and when its not absolutely quiet in the background. so you can guess that my social life is not the best. but being deaf all my life i have grown used to it... still it gets me jealous when there are people complaining of being friendless...because they have the things i dont: the ability to have conversations with people easily, and to use the telephone, and all this other stuff that seems to me to be the perfect way to have a million friends.......... ur so lucky u know
hah i guess that turned out to be more of a self-pity paragraph, dont mind me
my point is, use your gift of talking and listening to show people who u really are. unless ur deaf like me... never mind, ur doomed forever lol jk</p>
<p>Wow that last post was really inspiring : )</p>
<p>smile at random people. and join clubs. you'll be exposed to so much more people, and eventually, there's atleast one person there you'll probably 'click' with.</p>
<p>i was volunteering at this place the past week and i did not know a single person. i was sitting by myself waiting for them to assign roles. some people came in and i smile at some of them. some smiled back and sat beside me and started talking to me. as if they've known me for ages. </p>
<p>i've had my bouts of shyness. i think most have as well but i think it's possible to 'hide' it. just smile a lot and be friendly to people. it's all in you. good luck!</p>
<p>I started at public high school in January of freshman year. I knew nobody at all. It was rough untill about the middle of 10th grade. I've got friends now...I eat lunch with them and everything's peachy but quite honestly I was much more productive as a loner. It'd take me about two weeks worth of lunch periods to get through big novels.
Seriously, I can almost guarentee that Kurt Vonnegut & Ayn Rand have more interesting things to say than the kids at your school. Books aren't people but sometimes they're a better investment.</p>
<p>Put yourself out there and get to know different people.</p>
<p>And stop doing other people's HW... that's just bad. For you and for the other person.</p>
<p>definitely join clubs, thats the best thing...I moved in soph year and I made lots of friends that way, but until then, try talking to people in your classes, about, well, anything.
whats a troll anyway? i dont get it.</p>
<p>Someone who's a troll is someone that makes trouble on boards and gets amused by it...</p>
<p>Just talk to people. Walk down a corridor and start chatting ypu know. I know it sounds hard but heck i would have no life if i didn't have the confidence to talk to anyone and everyone. Your bound to find people.</p>
<p>Clubs are a good idea with mutual interests and all.</p>
<p>And go to social events too...</p>
<p>Try to be more outgoing and then you should find a couple friends to hang out with regularly. I was in your situation last year, being the new kid is rough. You should try to let people know that you are honestly interested in spending time with them, then they will become more interested in spending time with you. </p>
<p>Or you should tell the next person who asks you to do his/her homework with good humor: "You seem like you can do the homework yourself, you can read and write and that's all homework really requires." If you want to say something as corny as that, or something a little more funny, remember to do it with a smile. That will make the person like you since that shows you have a good sense of humor.</p>
<p>Laughter is the medicine for everything.</p>
<p>What do you mean accomodating? People at your high school are not customer service representatives. Be confident in yourself - don't slouch, look down, be uptight/nervous - little things like that matter in how we perceive others. What about those who sit next to you in class - make small talk with them - even if it is about school. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK FOR THEM. Helping yes, doing someone else's homework is not a way to befriend them - they are just using you. It is even uncommon with close friends, in my opinion that is not a friendship. Be happy, confident and easygoing - look at yourself from the side, would you want to befriend you?</p>
<p>Don't do homework for people</p>
<p>I hate to sound harsh, but posting on an internet message board about being lonely seems kind of counterintuitive, I would think that spending time getting extremely vague advice like "just talk to people" isn't really helping your situation. If it really is a problem then go talk to a counselor or something.</p>
<p>I can't these people managed to fill up three pages without giving the best advice.</p>
<p>Join a sport. You become a hell lot closer to your teammates than you think. Trust me.</p>
<p>beat somebody up during lunch. that will maybe get you popular and have people want to get to know you.</p>
<p>if not then join clubs and sports.</p>
<p>oh yeah also keep your chin up and make eye contact with people</p>