<p>Hey guys I saw this thread on Northeastern and thought it was really intresting how students find it hard to make friends. So for any Penn staters how hard would you say making friends at Psu is from a scale of 1-10. A 1 being super easy and a 10 being really hard.</p>
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<p>It’s extremely easy 
Just say “hey” to someone</p>
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<li>It’s really, really easy.</li>
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<p>Penn State is a sprawling school and you will meet a variety of people from an eclectic group of student bodies, demographics, etc. You have your d-bags, trashy greeks, nice greeks, nerds, Asians, hipsters, and lots of “normal” people scattered all around (sorry for the use of stereotypes). Most of the people here are generally friendly and if you initiate the conversation, you can EASILY make a friend on the spot! I’ve made a ton of friends from all of my classes by just starting a random conversation with people around me.</p>
<p>I’m sure this applies to every school, though.</p>
<p>yeah well it depends what you mean by friend. if a ‘friend’ is someone you can walk by on campus and say ‘sup’ to and get a head nod back, then yeah its easy. if youre talking about people to hangout with etc., not so much. it sounds easy when your smallest class is 203 people to make friends, but think about it, theres legit no time for student interaction, not to mention sitting by different people every day. plus everyone feels the need to save the 7 spots around them for their frat/sorority friends, god forbid you spend 50 minutes of time dedicated to learning without your friends. so if you wanna be that random dude that awkwardly sparks up a convo and looks a little creepy in the process, go for it, but as a student here, i still feel like having upwards of 40,000 students is way too many to find good/meaningful friendships etc.</p>
<p>I’d say its about a 7 for making legit friends that youd ever hang out with outside of school,
and about a 3 for being able to recognize someone on the street and say ‘hey’ and get a response</p>
<p>I dont think that person is right. Everyone I’ve talked to has really good friends and they’re all part of clubs and organizations and not that many are part of frats or sororities, and they all have a good time. You just have to find your niche and things you enjoy and friends will come with it.</p>
<p>I would say that initially my son made friends in the dorm and in his clubs. (It was friends from a club that he moved to an apartment with.) As he got farther along in his major he got to know the other students in the program; there are only 100 each year and the classes are smaller. (According to College Board only 13% of men join fraternities and 11% of women join sororities.) He is not particularly outgoing but hasn’t had any problem making good friends.</p>
<p>I went to PSU a long time ago. But I have always been kind of shy, and I’ve never had an easier time in my life making friends. At first, I made friends - lifelong friends I am still in touch with - from my dorms. Then I met people in classes. Through activities. Friends of friends. At parties. After a while, I had several “groups of friends” - people I knew through my major, people I knew from the dorms, people from my job (I worked at the Saloon), people I knew through participating in activites. </p>
<p>I had a hard time in high school making friends. PSU was so much better!</p>
<p>How likely is it that you one stays friends with their roommates from freshman year? I’ve picked roommates for summer and fall and I really liked them, but I’m scared we won’t stay friends after we room together because a lot of people I’ve talked to never talk to their roommates anymore.</p>
<p>I’m not saying this is typical, but my roommate from freshman year was my matron of honor at my wedding when I was 30. My friend who lived in the dorm room across the hall is still a close friend who I see on a regular basis. Her daughter just got accepted at Univ Park. 
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<p>It’s partly luck, honestly. Being roommates is a great bonding experience - if the two of you are well-matched. If you already know your roommates and like them, you’ve got a better chance, honestly. Hopefully, you’re compatible when it comes to neatness/loudness/partying/studying, etc. But you’ll meet plenty of other people in college who will be close friends, even if that doesn’t include your roommate.</p>
<p>I found it difficult because the campus is so huge and you can sit in the same place in a lecture hall of 300 and never see the same people twice. Also, you can join clubs and such, but it’s my experience that:
a) somehow people at clubs all know each other by the time I get there, so I feel left out and
b) to interact outside of clubs, you kind of feel like you have to drink, and that’s not me.</p>
<p>But I’ve never found making friends incredibly easy!</p>