<p>Clubs? Classes? Dorms? Sorority/frat?</p>
<p>This is coming for a lonely freshman about to start 2nd semester after break.
Really though, the loneliness is overbearing. I have acquaintances who don't seem to want to hang out and stuff....help? I'm disappointed in my experience so far.</p>
<p>i’m also a freshman and my closest friends are my roommates - they’re like my family. i met most of my other friends at parties. if you have acquaintances in your classes, you can also pretty easily become friends with them by working on homework or studying together. just be friendly!</p>
<p>Hi! The good news is, SO many people feel the way you do. The first few weeks/months of the semester, College Confidential is literally overflowing with topics like “Help! No friends yet!” or “I can’t seem to find a group” or “3 months in and I’m really lonely!” or “I’m not having the social college experience I wanted.” I know it seems like everyone has a group already and no one wants to hang out, but that’s so far from the truth.</p>
<p>This is a weird question, but are you Jewish or religious at all? My only first-hand experience comes from the Jewish groups but there’s a TON of outreach for religious students on most campuses. Everyone I know from Hillel is super friendly with each other and it’s definitely where I’ve made most of my friends. Even if you’re only culturally religious, it can definitely be a great place to meet people.</p>
<p>Also, the age old advice of joining clubs. I’m assuming you haven’t found a club yet that you really click with, but keep trying! Look for groups that have weekly meetings. Joining a bunch, even if you don’t become best friends with the members, is a really good way to surround yourself with people and keep busy.</p>
<p>As a sophomore, my closest friends are my freshman-year boyfriend’s former dorm friends (who now hang out more with me…including his roommate…oops?), and the other members of the improv club I’m in. Other good friends are people I’ve been in plays with. If you’re into music or theatre at all, performance groups are a reeeeally good way to make friends. Theatre, improv, a capella, choir, orchestra, dance, anything, if there’s a group for that sort of stuff you can join, do it. Sports probably offer similar dynamics but I don’t do sports so I can’t speak to that. </p>
<p>Or find one person you really click with and focus on becoming friends with them (or if it floats your boat, dating them. I mean, obviously don’t just date someone cuz you’re lonely but that worked for me) and through that, insert yourself into their group.</p>
<p>Don’t really have any at my current school. However, before I transferred I met them through a girl that I was in a club with Freshman year. Towards the end of my first year and the beginning of my second year they turned into great friends.</p>
<p>So, didn’t really happen until Sophomore year.</p>
<p>Give it time.</p>
<p>I’m a sophomore, and most of my friends come from my sorority and my major. I didn’t have major friends until this year because at purdue all engineers take the same classes and you don’t get into your discipline until sophomore year. So if you don’t make friends right away, don’t worry.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, I met most of my close college friends in class. Of course clubs and fraternities are great places to make friends, but don’t underestimate the friend-making potential of a classroom environment.</p>
<p>Most of my close friends are in honors college, my music fraternity, or choir.</p>
<p>Well, to be perfectly honest, my best friend in college was my best friend in high school. But I’ve met so many other wonderful people while actually in college. Freshman year, I met a ton of people in the dorms. My sophomore year, I roomed with a girl from my high school who introduced me to some a her friends. Turns out that I got along with them better than she ever did and we’re pretty close. I met this year’s roommate in a class and we just hit it off. I’ve also made friends through this this feminist programming organization I’m in. I wouldn’t say most of my friends have come from any one place.</p>
<p>Thinking back [ahem] years to college, most of the people who I still keep in touch with were those I met in a particular club (newspaper) and those from the dorm. I’d be happy to see some of the people from my classes again, but we never had a particularly close relationship.</p>
<p>My closest friends hands down are from my dorm. I’m not so close to my roommates but my two best friends are from my dorm, and I hang out with a bunch of guys from my dorm too. It’s harder now since we’re all off campus, but we still plan things over the weekend and stuff. Our dorm had 40 people (20 guys, 20 girls) so we were all very close and got to know each other quite well.</p>
<p>I also have some good friends from orientation (one of my current roommates), some organizations, classes, labs etc. But I spend the majority of my time with people I met in the dorm.</p>
<p>My closest friends are from when I initially rushed for a fraternity, met a few guys who I’ve clicked with. I declined the chapter’s bid, so I can focus on my grades the first semester. But other than that, my other close friends are from club sport. Met a few guys and a couple girls from my flag football team, hanged with them during the weekends and such.</p>
<p>My best friend I met in my dorm, one group of good friends I met on my sports team (I guess I just consider the whole team my closest friends), and my group of friends just ended up all becoming friends at the end of freshmen year after meeting each other various places through various people. It took a while for me to have my solid friendships come together but it definitely worked out!</p>