So I started college in the fall of 2017 and my first semester was pretty terrible. It started out okay, I got along well with my roommate and we made friends with some people on our floor. We were the typical college friend group stereotypes, we did our work together every night, stayed up all night, went and saw the sunrise together and everything it was great. But about two weeks in, me and my roommate has a stupid misunderstanding (it was honestly such a small issue and should not have blown up into this whole ordeal) and she turned out to be a lot pettier than I had pegged her for and she went and talked smack about me to all of our friends over absolutely nothing. Honestly, I think she was just having a bad day because she hasn’t behaved like that since then. But the damage was done, and at that point everyone started acting differently towards me and even though me and my roommate made up and now we’re okay, everyone else started spreading rumors, talking about me behind my back etc. Later I found out that it wasn’t just me and that they were really toxic towards each other as well. I didn’t have any other friends either because I got rejected from the dance team and the play I had auditioned for and I couldn’t join any other clubs. I was isolated for the majority of the semester and although my grades were doing fine, my social life was lacking. In high school, I had an incredible friend group so going from that to this nightmare was really difficult and I didn’t want to burden my old friends with my problems too much although I know that they’d be there for me. I didn’t want to make those relationships all about me and my issues. It took me a long time to not be upset over how everything went down and its annoying because I can’t even escape them because we all live near each other but I have accepted that this was not on me and that I don’t need to be involved with such terrible people. But, now that I have decided to start anew this semester, I’m having trouble making friends. Everyone else has already established their friend groups, its hard to make friends in classes because everyone’s trying to learn, and I’m kind of scared to audition for clubs and stuff again because I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t get in and lose my chance at finding people. I don’t know how else to do this. I’ve considered transferring but, it’ll probably be the same situation on other campuses and this school is a state school so the tuition is cheaper and I plan on going to med school so I don’t want to spend too much on undergrad. The only way that I would consider transferring is if I got into an ivy or something along those lines because only then would me and my parents be willing to spend the money and my GPA in high school was lacking due to some family issues I had during that time. This school was actually my safety and was the only school that accepted me. Overall I’m just not loving my college experience because of my resentment from not getting in somewhere better and because of all the drama I had to push through and the consequent isolation. I don’t know what to do, can someone give me some advice? Thank you