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[quote=Anonymous]My niece is about 3 weeks into her freshman year at a large (30K students?) public school. She's in the dorms. She hasn't made any friends to hang out with and is now saying she's homesick. I've Facetimed with her a few times during meals and she seems to just be eating alone. I don't know how to advise her. I didn't go to a giant school like that. Our dorm/house at my college was the center of social life for us freshman year. I can't imagine how hard it would be to meet friends in such an anonymous setting. Her classes have hundred of classmates, so it's not like that is a natural place for someone who isn't very outgoing to meet people.

What advice can I offer her? She has tried going to the gym but says the lines to use machines are really long. I suggested that she chit chat with the other students while she's waiting but she said that's more what people do to pick up on you.

Our family had wanted her to attend the SLAC she got into with amazing merit, out of concern for how challenging a large school seemed for her social life given that she's pretty quiet and introverted. Do some large schools offer more of an on-ramp for freshman socially? She arrived on campus on a Friday and started classes Monday. So there was no real orientation period for making connections before the demands of classes began. [/quote]

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