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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most college students these days, if they aren't in Greek Life or varsity athletes, don't "find their people" in college. It's just the nature of living as a young adult these days -- a sense of community and in-group belonging is much lower these days. [/quote]

[b]That’s so false[/b].

My kid has friends from both her majors, her brownstone dorm, a couple clubs and her HomeState club. Plus her scholarship friend from freshman year was neighbors with Italians in the soccer team and that’s a super big welcoming friend group.

You do not need to play college sports or join a sorority. [/quote]

You just gave a sample size of one - your DDks experience- to try to disprove that a large population of college students and the general public feel loneliness. You are wrong. People are more lonely than ever.

In a Gallup poll specifically of college students, which was released in August, 39 percent said they had experienced loneliness the previous day. While it wasn’t the top concern for students—that appeared to be stress, which 66 percent of students reported experiencing the previous day—loneliness ranked above sadness (36 percent) and anger (25 percent).

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/physical-mental-health/2023/11/08/new-epidemic-gripping-college-campuses-loneliness[/quote]

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