Transfer social life concerns

cerealkiller
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:31:17 +0000

I will be transferring from my local community college to SUNY Potsdam in the fall. In terms of social life, the past 2 years have been rough for me because I spent one semester living off-campus at a school in Pennsylvania where it was impossible to meet anyone and I ended up transferring to my local community college (Westchester) where I worked hard to get the grades to transfer and since it was a commuter school there wasn’t much social life. I would like to think that SUNY Potsdam is transfer-friendly because they have the reputation for being an overall friendly (and small) school. They said that they put the transfer students together in suites (I even sent an email to the residence directors requesting it to be safe). I guess the main thing I’m worried about is when I look at my friends who stayed at the same school most of their friends they met as freshman, I’m afraid that I missed my chance (I have trouble meeting people by myself but I have no problem meeting people through others), if I have to I’ll join clubs but I would prefer to make friends in the dorms. Does anyone have any experience or advice?