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[–] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (7 children)

in my first three years of college i spoke to maybe ten students, pretty much all of them because we were assigned a team project together. only one guy talked to me because we were sitting next to each other at the same class and i started a few short-lived conversations with whoever was next to me before exams if the teacher was taking too long to come.

besides that, many people (almost everyone it seems) came into the college as friend groups from high school. they spoke to each other, but you're not within that friend group and it feels awkward to butt in a conversation where everyone's already highschool friends and you're a stranger.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

ya if you want to meet people, join a club.

I only ever speak to people I don't already know in the same class when there's class assignments that requires us to.

[–] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i don't think we had anything like clubs. there was no campus as they have in america, just a college and a student dorm that was shared with other faculties.

there were some club-like activities like tabletop game evenings every now and then but i always had classes during those and couldn't try them out.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

In college, made my own clubs and flyered it around.

One club was the cartoons and cereal club, where people brought cereal and we'd watch 90s cartoons for an hour. Another club was the Bob Ross appreciation club, which was just an excuse to drink wine and paint.

Be weird. You'd be surprised by the people you attract. And it was kind of awesome to go around bragging to people that I got 30 college kids to watch classic Xmen and eat Applejack's.

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