Well, I am a freshman at UCSC, currently in a triple dorm and I don’t really like it. I never get any privacy and my roomates are either super quiet or hang out with their own friends, while the only friend I made so far is this girl from China, while my roommate literally made a ton of new friends in the dorm already and she hangs out with them all the time. I would ask if I could hang with her and them, but I don’t think she likes me very much due to something happening earlier in the year which I am not going to get into, and I don’t really have nothing in common with my roommates so we are all mostly just silent in the room. They are nice and respectable people however. In addition to that, I am also scared academically, since I did horrible in math last quarter, (which was the beginning of calculus,) and I thought I would do good since I took two calculus classes in high school, but I ended up bombing the final which led to me almost not passing the class. Its also an online class so maybe that was a factor. But anyway, I am doing a computer science major which requires me to do good in math, and this quarter I have to take an even HARDER Calculus class which is ALSO online (eeek!) So yeah, I am just venting and I was wondering if there is anyone or if there was anyone who was in the same situation as me.
I wasn’t on “talking terms” with my freshman roommate either. Somehow we’re just agreeing not to disturb the other sleep habits. I pretty much just hanged out with student organizations like Chinese Student Association to answer my need of socializing.
I did AB calc in HS, so I ended up doing well in differential calculus. Unfortunately, I struggled in Integrals due to not adjusting to the professor’s teaching style. I ended up getting tutoring from other science major students.
Maybe I should try to join a club. I did try joining the Game Design Club but I wasn’t really interested in it…so maybe sophmore year i’ll try to join a black student union or something,
Yes, join a few clubs. People with similar interest will be better fit as potential friends.
Any RM situation over 2 people always seems to work this way. I wish colleges would stop doing it! If there is a lounge or TV room, hang out there and chat with other dormmates.
Yeah I wish I could chat with others in a lounge or something but they are usually studying or hanging with a group of their other friends.
Join clubs to find others who share the same interests. They will become your friends. Freshman year is hard. It will get better. Hang in there.
Thanks for that 