How To Make New Friends In College?

How To Make New Friends In College?

There are moments in life when you will have to change your complete environment. Leaving your high school and going to college is one of those moments and it brings a radical change of scenery to your life.

Those moments of sudden change can bring both exhilaration and apprehension, it feels like everything is open again. You have a chance to reinvent yourself or grab opportunities to develop, but there are also some downsides. For example: you will have to make new friends. Especially when you are shy, that is not an easy task. Moreover, after the cut-off lists have been announced, and students have started taking admissions, the idea of  how you can make new friends in your college must have blown up your mind. And you also leave the friends you had for years and years, behind it might feel like you will never have such  strong connections again.

But don’t worry. You will find like-minded people wherever you go and especially in college or the university because you have so much in common already. Through this post, I shall try to help you to figure out ways of interacting with people and making new friends in college.

When you are starting to meet the new people, you might feel shy or insecure. In a way you are in a vulnerable position because there is a certain level of dependence on other people you are experiencing.  You are not sure will they accept you or not, what kind of impression will you leave, etc. Without any friends of your own every person can be the one that you will depend on for company.

This puts a lot of pressure on all the encounters with your fellow college mates. Some students in their first semester have a tendency to put their behaviour, and the responses of others under a magnifying glass.  They are usually bothered by questions like “Did I appear like a nice person in this interaction? Did others like me?”.

These questions that can haunt you in many situations, and if you think like that for a while, you first days at the college can became very stressful. Every encounter that could be an inspiring experience of getting to know somebody, can change into a competition of impressing and showing off.

Advice to you, simple as it might sound, is to just let go. Take a deep breath and let all the tension, expectations or pressure slide from your shoulders. People will then be able to see the person you are in everyday life.

Of course there are chances that some will reject you for it. That’s only natural. The thing is that only  your natural self will make you meet the people that are meant to be your true friends for life.

It sounds easy but it takes a lot of courage and practice to do so. If you are still not feeling comfortable in connecting with new people those social networking sites just might be what you need. You can always try talking to them through Facebook or Whatsapp if you feel shy talking to them face to face. In the end, I would just say that college life is full of new experiences and you must always be ready to open yourself to face them in order to become a better individual.