<p>Hopefully this thread dies soon. CC should learn how to lock it up. Anyway, I was more shy when I began USC than I am now, but it’s not because I started attending USC and was magically transformed. It definitely helped to meet new people, which was made easier by finding people with similar interests. Join an anime club and you can talk about that with all the members, both guys and girls. A lot of it is just not being afraid to speak, and then it is what you make of it. High school is a great place to start, because looking back on it, I rarely see or talk to anyone from their, so why did I ever care about what they thought of me? Talk to everyone and grow those social skills.</p>