What are students like? Advice.

hazelorb
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:57:28 +0000

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Re: you specifically: we have an outdoors club, a huge university democrats club, etc. What activities you do, that’s up to you. It is a huge state school. You’ll find plenty of friends. The best part about a big state school is that you really can’t generalize the school because everyone is so different. It is great. There is always a new crazy club you can join.

And just having friends like you, well that’s also overrated. Sure you need some common thing, but you don’t have to have the same political views or come from NoCal or whatever. I like that a lot of my friends are from rural VA when I am from Philadelphia.

Everyone worries about fitting in. If you’re determined to be sociable you’ll fit in. How do you think the international kids do it? They didn’t come to the US to just be friends with other international students, they make friends with everyone. The people who are the most different in my classes are the ones who get noticed a lot and easily make friends in my opinion (as long as they’re friendly of course). Just saying.