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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP, I went to one of the schools you listed in your post and also graduated in 90s I was OOS and knew no one. [/b]I ended up joining a sorority (the shame). I lived 1 year in dorm, 1 year in sorority house and 2 years in a group house with sorority sisters.

The people I still keep in touch with from college are from my sorority and some women who were in my freshmen dorm. None of them live in DMV, most live in big cities of the same state in which our college is located. They are the main reason I am still on Facebook. We don't do a girls trip or weekend (although we have tried, it just that kids' schedules kept getting in the way so we all kind of gave up).

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Same. But instead of a sorority, I joined a club sports team my freshman year. And lucked out because those people were/are awesome (a least a core group of 6-10 of us). All spread over the country now but we get together almost annually and text as a group or one-on-one regularly.

I think there might be something to joining close-knit groups with a shared purpose rather than trying to just make friends? I have only two non-teammate friends from college who I still chat with regularly. I see them maybe once every handful of years.[/quote]

OP here. I was in a similar situation as you but didn't make any friends. I refused to join a sorority (I'm definitely not the type at all, and I was turned off from sororities based off of the girls I met from freshman year who ended up rushing). I joined a club sport and spent ~6 to 8 hours/week in practices with them, and stuck with it for all four years. But I didn't make any friends through that.

Which is kind of crazy in retrospect. [b]How did I spent almost 10 hours/week in a club sport but not socialize with any of them outside of practices and games?[/b][/quote]

Yes you should reflect on that. It's not crazy, but its not typical.[/quote]

OP here. This is (part of the reason) why I thought I had ASD/ADHD for the longest time. But a neuropsych eval told me no...[/quote]

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