Rainbowstar
Active member
Hi everyone,
I would like to know whether you think making friends at university is difficult.
I have been and still am a university student for five years and I have find it difficult to make friends at university. All my friends are from high school. At university, you meet people from your classes, clubs, friends and other sources. But with the way classes are timetabled, you often see or chat with these people a few times, and you don't see them again unless you are enrolled in the same unit the following semester. The best way to make friends is to see the same person(s) regularly to build a friendship. That's why it is easier to make friends at High School because you see the same people everyday, and hence there are more opportunities to develop a friendship. The university environment doesn't enable regular contact unless you're in a degree where everyone does the same subjects.
The advice I often get is join a club and society to meet people. Clubs and societies are a great way to meet people, however, sometimes the same problem occurs because once the semester is over there is little or no regular contact.
At the same time, making friends requires initiative and effort on our part too, so perhaps I'm complaining too much.
What do you think?
I would like to know whether you think making friends at university is difficult.
I have been and still am a university student for five years and I have find it difficult to make friends at university. All my friends are from high school. At university, you meet people from your classes, clubs, friends and other sources. But with the way classes are timetabled, you often see or chat with these people a few times, and you don't see them again unless you are enrolled in the same unit the following semester. The best way to make friends is to see the same person(s) regularly to build a friendship. That's why it is easier to make friends at High School because you see the same people everyday, and hence there are more opportunities to develop a friendship. The university environment doesn't enable regular contact unless you're in a degree where everyone does the same subjects.
The advice I often get is join a club and society to meet people. Clubs and societies are a great way to meet people, however, sometimes the same problem occurs because once the semester is over there is little or no regular contact.
At the same time, making friends requires initiative and effort on our part too, so perhaps I'm complaining too much.
What do you think?