I remember having some low points as a transfer student in a new place. I initially made some nice friends but then the bottom dropped out a few weeks later. I floundered for a bit socially and then decided to start helping out at the campus YWCA & made a whole new group of friends that worked out much better for me. I didn’t share any of this info with my folks, so they never knew how rocky things were for me socially–sometimes too much sharing makes it tougher on the parents, I think.