“I really just don’t want to become the weird outcast or whatever…lol”
If you didn’t learn this in high school, college/uni is definitely the place to learn how to NOT be a sheep.
Q: Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
A: It was dead.
Q: Why did the other monkey fall out of the tree?
A: Peer pressure
The campus has 43,000 people on it, if you want to be straight-edge or whatever, you’ll have plenty of company and won’t have to look very far.