<p>I’m hoping to transfer here as a Human Development major, but my only concern is that I won’t be able to make friends here because everyone will already be settled into groups. What are your experiences with making friends at Davis (even if you’re not a transfer)?</p>
<p>I’m a transfer, and well, how easily you make friends depends on you as a person. I transferred in during a year when transfer students still got to live in the dorms (2011-2012 year), so I got to make friends with my roommate and suitemates (so basically 3 people). My suitemates and I were more of the quiet, introverted type, but my roommate was more outgoing and made friends with practically everyone in the dorm building we lived in (and not just our floor–she made friends with almost everyone up to the third floor). While I joined clubs, I would still consider people in clubs to be just mere acquaintances because I don’t interact with them much, while the roommate I mentioned earlier made friends with people she met in her Model UN club, and one of my suitemates made friends with the people she works with at the dairy behind Tercero. I don’t know about the other suitemate, but I know she spent a lot of time with her boyfriend (who she met within the first 3 weeks of school. According to her, he was the one who noticed her in class one day and eventually got the courage to ask her out) before she recently graduated.</p>
<p>There’s the Transfer, Re-Entry, and Veterans (TRV) Center, and as a transfer student, you’ll automatically get put onto the TRV’s listserv, and you basically get emails from the TRV center about events for transfer students to meet up. While transfer students now only have the student apartments as a choice instead of dorms like transfer students this year (2012-2013) and prior did, I heard that the area coordinator for transfers living in the student apartments still plan things for transfers to get together and possibly make friends with each other.</p>
<p>I’m not a transfer student, but as sopranokitty said it still depends on the person. I became good friends with one of my roommates and one of the people from a neighboring suite. Everyone else that I’ve met is more of an acquaintance to me. On the other hand, my other roommate was similar to how sopranokitty describes her roommate; she seemed to be friends with everyone in the building. </p>
<p>Actually, my suite was one of the more social/loud suites on the floor except for three of us (in a suite of ten). That’s not to say that the quiet people were completely asocial, but we were a lot quieter than the other people in my suite, more in line with other people on the floor as far as general noise level. As a side note, this was on the quiet floor. Just goes to show how much it depends on you and the people around you.</p>
<p>Thank you so much to both of you guys for your answers! They’re both very encouraging :D</p>
<p>Now the only thing to worry about is actually being able to go there!</p>
<p>Not hard at all. Talk to people in classes, make “study groups” to hang out with, join clubs, join groups, talk at lunch, go to parties, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you niklas!!</p>