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Incoming freshman
18/f
I will be an incoming freshman to a city school with a large population of commuter students. My school treats it's commuters very nicely with a commuter center, an orientation specifically for commuter students, and various events for commuters. Despite this, I'm still nervous about commuting to school and not being able to make friends. Will joining clubs help me out? Also, what can I do to be a bit more outgoing when attending orientation. Thanks!
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Definitely. When I started college, that totally helped me. When I first started, I wanted to go to a specific university in my town, but long story short, I spent the first semester at a junior college instead. It was actually a branch of a small school. When I got there, I was surprised how friendly the people there were. When I was in high school, no one would talk to you unless they knew you. At that junior college, complete strangers would say hello to you and ask you how you were. One class I was in just had like seven students and we would all greet each other and shoot the breeze a little now and then. Then, we all had to do an assignment together as a group. We had to meet on our own time and we laughed and had so much fun together that I met with a lot of to study at one time or another. Really think about stuff like that if you're ever in a situation were you and someone you know a little in one of your classes have the same assignment. As far as clubs go, that would be a great idea. Surely the best way to make friends in college. When I did get to go to the university, I wanted to join a sorority, but at first, I didn't know which one. It was a Christian university, and I did things like go to Bible study and went to chapel even though students who lived at home didn't have to. I met a lot of really great people there who were more than happy to talk and make friends with me. When I did join a sorority, since it wasn't just a giant school, the size of the sorority wasn't too big and even though it did take some time to get to know everyone, I did and I'm good friends with a lot of them. I started by making friends with the girls who sat close to me during our meetings. Pretty much all of my sister's close college friends were in her sorority or people she met through girls in her sorority. I would definitely advise joining clubs.
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Just judging from what you have written it appears to me that your college is going out of its way to be inclusive to the commuter students. I have not heard of any other school doing anything like this and your school is not alone in being a commuter school.
I always recommend joining clubs or groups for which you have an interest. You will find a variety of clubs and groups on campus offering just about anything you can think of from Astronomy to Photography and more. The easiest way to make friends is to find people with similar interest as yours. Study groups are also ways of meeting people. The common interest there is of course your class work and your compatibility is less likely to be a match as it would be with a club of women interest out side of a course of study.
As to how to be more outgoing. This is a bite the bullet type thing. If you are a shy retiring person. Then you have to force yourself to walk up to people and introduce yourself.
Being a local person you might find it easier to talk to people from out of the area by offering to show them around off campus.Should you strike a really close friendship then you might invite that person over to your house one weekend giving them a break from campus life and cuisine.
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