Making friends as a transfer and commuter

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<p>I really need some help. I transferred to a new school, but over a 1000 miles away from my old school, and am commuting from home. I have yet to make any friends on campus and this is the end of my second semester there. </p>

<p>I attend 6 different clubs and talk to people in my classes. I try to be as social as possible. What seems to happen is people will talk with me when they see me, but they all live on campus and have a close-knit community in their dorms so they never text me to hang out or anything. Most of the time, when I suggest plans, they are too busy with school work/with dorm-friends. They seem to spend all their free time with people from their dorm and don't have time for anyone else. They aren't really interested in making more friends/having a friend whose there only sometimes. </p>

<p>With the few commuters at my school, they all have friends from high school where they live so they aren't looking for more friends. They simply leave campus after class and go hang out with their high school friends. My high school friends are far from home and only come home for winter break, not even Thanksgiving or the summer. So even other commuters have friends.</p>

<p>Has anyone had a similar experience or can offer some advice? I really need to figure out how to make friends because so far I have only gotten discouraged from one failure after another!</p>

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<p>It is pretty difficult - I’m was in a pretty similar situation, only I rent myself, but this year am a half hour out. I never got as many friends as I did in my freshman year of college (who I still talk to and hang out with when given the chance) but I’ve always had at least a couple friends to hang out with here. One way is meeting people from work some place off campus. Many people where I work don’t even go to college, sometimes making it easier to hang out with them. The other is by asking someone I like talking to, to study for a class. I would only do this in more difficult classes, but I’ve made a few friends this way, even if it wasn’t all that helpful to study together.</p>

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<p>Maybe the job idea might work. I take mostly classes that have papers in them and no exams. The one exam I did have, a girl in my class and I studied for together, but she just wanted to study and then left promptly after. :&lt;/p>