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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One truth about almost all colleges, whether it's a selective LAC or a big university: You can't rely on your classes or your dorms as place to make friends. Especially as an undergraduate, and you're coming into a new place where you don't know anybody.

You've got to do something outside of class, whether it's a sport, a theater group, the school newspaper or radio station, or even just a regular boardgame night or movie-watching club. It took me a while to realize this (at my big state school), and college life was much more comfortable once I started doing regular extracurriculars.

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+1 for me it was a music group. DS is at a huge university and really stuck with his HS friends because he didn't want to join stuff. Finally started extending beyond that core group when he started taking classes more regularly in his major and made friends that way and now in junior year is on a rec soccer team.  DD goes to a LAC. One semester in, yes, the main group she says she hangs out with are kids from her dorm but she's also in a music group so has friends through that, and her major is one of the largest on campus and has several clubs related to it so she's building relationships through that too.

She has mentioned that the athletes tend to hang out together but also that one of the guys in her group is on the football team so it's not like it's an absolute separation. She really preferred the small schools but was sure to find someplace where she could continue music as one built-in social group + had a substantial program for her major vs. just a few students.  [/quote]

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