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[Anonymous No.15173854]

I am an extremely introverted person and stick to mostly confined small social grps? I'm going to mech eng next year and I am afraid if I don't make friends I'm gonna get fucked. Can you advice me bros!

>inb4 just talk with ppl

[Anonymous No.15173857]

>>15173854
just talk with ppl

[Anonymous No.15173957]

op on left, /sci/ catalog on right

[Anonymous No.15174041]

Join a non-academic club and/or an intramural sports team. If you do a sport make sure it's a social team sport, i.e. club swimming might not be your best bet, but waterpolo could be great for example. And make sure you drink with people on the weekends and sometimes on Thursday. The first few weeks of first semester are totally open season for meeting people, so it's normal to just introduce yourself to whoever you live by in your dorm and whoever you sit by in class and so on. But introducing yourself is only the first step. You have to hang out with people outside of the classroom and dorms, or you will never become real friends with them. The most important part of hanging out is to have something to do when you hang out. If you just say "hey want to hang out later" that's totally vague and you're not really giving the other person anything to work with. It's much better to suggest some social activity. "Hey want to smoke later?" or "hey want to see live band at xyz tonight?" or "hey want to shoot some baskets?" and so on.

Of course I didn't do most of the things I just described, it's just what I've gathered from having gone through college. I lucked my way into a fraternity and would have been a total social failure if not for that.

[Anonymous No.15174057]

>>15174041
Oh, and one thing I forgot. I majored in Mechanical Engineering, and I believe I would have been far better off job-wise if I'd done Computer Science instead. Of course the market has changed in the five years since I graduated. And it depends a lot on the program. Some schools have garbage Computer Science programs, so that would affect it of course.

In any case, over the course of the next several months, you need to think really hard about what you want to major in. See if you can get a conversation with some alumni (one at a time) and ask them about their lives during and after college and how they liked their major and whether they would have done a different one if they could go back in time.

I chose Mechanical Engineering on a whim and by the time I started to have second thoughts it was already Junior year and I couldn't switch majors without giving myself an extra semester or two, which I didn't want to do because I went to a really expensive school and all my friends would have graduated and I'd be left behind.

[Anonymous No.15174126]

>>15173854
Quality over quantity.

[Anonymous No.15174146]

>>15174041

[Anonymous No.15174149]

>>15174057

[Anonymous No.15174156]

>>15173854
just talk with ppl

[Anonymous No.15174162]

>>15173854
D&D groups, student drama/theatre clubs, lab techs (non faculty staff people around your age), movie night clubs, etc. are ALL very forgiving and welcoming social groups in college, just to name a few.

[Anonymous No.15174191]

>>15173854
It'll be fine, even if it isn't, it'll be fine anyway

[Anonymous No.15174221]

>>15174146
>>15174149
>t. ten-dollar word using, pencil necked, city slicker

[Anonymous No.15174312]

>>15173854
I joined the debate team, carried my team to second place, asked out the 9/10 qtpi law studentess in my team out, and got rejected like a dog.
Make of this story what you will, it's not an advice, just sharing an experience.