<p>I also think Northstarmom’s advice is excellent.</p>
<p>You may be at the wrong place, but you have been there, what, four weeks? It takes time to learn a new place, make new, real, friends, and to find your niche. Think about this: if your best friends (girlfriend? boyfriend?) from high school were all enrolled there with you, would you still want to leave? If the answer is no, then hang in there. Your best friends will be there with you soon, and that is what makes college fun.</p>
<p>Also, I think that the the Juniors and Seniors in the activities that you are already involved in are a really good resource for you (and as someone said, this is not high school, they are potential friends as well). Reach out to them and tell them how you are feeling. Ask them if any of them had those same feelings their freshman year, how long it took to get over it, and how they feel about the school now.</p>
<p>All the Freshman are floundering, it just takes different forms. Some of those kids drinking too much on the weekends will slow down as they become more comfortable, or yes, flunk out, and some of the kids who are not drinking will probably start to, hopefully with some moderation, creating more of a social balance.</p>
<p>Think about the fact that you are having trouble finding like minded people on the weekends, but that they are probably out there doing the same thing you are. How would they find you? As you become more engaged academically, socially, etc. you will all find each other.</p>
<p>And last, I don’t mean to be a downer, but your idea that college will be a time when you will be changing the world may be a bit idealistic. Everyone I know is buried in work eventually and do spend most of their weeknights in their rooms, or the library, working, even the ones who go to school in NYC. That is what college is actually about.</p>
<p>I have friends who have taken the semester off to be helpful to the Obama campaign, because they couldn’t really do both at the same time, be in college and change the world.</p>