<p>I know exactly what you’re feeling. I just started a graduate program at UCI and it’s been really difficult because there isn’t anyone here that I know from home or any of my old UCLA friends. My program has a total of 10 people and I live the furthest away from all of them and my roommates are always gone. I come home to my apartment and 85% of the time its just me. It does get lonely. My best advice is to start randomly talking to people in your classes, knock on your neighbor’s door, pick a random club that has a table on bruinwalk and talk to a few people - maybe you’ll get more interested in the club, if you don’t then you at least had some human contact. Also those people you say are from highschool or your undergrad (what about roommates or floormates?) try finding them on facebook, and if you happen to see them on campus - ask for their numbers and then actually invite them to have coffee, lunch, go to 3rd street with you or even if you need to run an errand in westwood. Anything. Sometimes you have to be the catalyst for outings, you can’t always expect to be an invitee. Good luck to you. And I think I need to take my own advice…</p>