WashU vs. USC vs. Northwestern

flashmountain
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:35:07 +0000

Nope. I think I was kind of like you were most of my life before college, and was still that way for much of my freshman year here. No one from my high school came here my freshman year. As that year went on, I got progressively more involved and extroverted.
I had a great freshman floor, and this is a common sentiment you will hear from anyone at Wash U. Whether that’s playing board games in the common room, or seeing a movie off campus, or seeing a local musician at a coffee shop on the room, or the balloon race in forest park, your freshman floor (expect about 50-55 kids, which is a nice size) always will have various activities and a good chunk of your freshman year will likely revolve around your floor. This group dynamic is great for people like you, especially if you don’t become particularly extroverted and don’t join a several student groups (which I recommend doing because that’s even a better way to meet people with your specific shared interests, whatever they may be).
I’d highly recommend requesting to live in the Healthy Living Community floors when the housing preference form comes around (commonly called “sub-free”). Not at all like there are big keggers happening in the non-HLC floors (because there are not), but the people that tend to choose the healthy living community tend to have personality descriptors very similar to yours, so your idea of fun and who you mesh well with will be similar to other people who request that environment.