<p>When I think about my college friends they were in my major and we became close in sophomore year- shared experiences (mainly women/chemistry majors) and the time of our freshman year to get to know each other. Being on a very Greek campus and not being part of it is one problem- he is an outsider to much of the social life. Having close contacts freshman year who drop out of a major force in his life is another. Hopefully he will have contacts through his science courses- likeminded people. I was the outlier extrovert among my equally smart and science minded college friends- we didn’t do some things I would have wanted to do. Negligible Greek presence on my campus. My son still doesn’t say anything about college friends but we know he has been busy going out with them sometimes when we have called- he never complained, however.</p>
<p>You may want to point out to him that he does have aquaintances he does things with and that friendships take time. Large U’s usually have enough likeminded people to hang out with- it doesn’t matter what the majority does. Time needed. Ask him in a few months. His boredom may be due to the absence of last year’s “friends” and not enough time passing yet to meet new ones to replace them.</p>