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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is supposed to be a taste of college life, you need to back off. It's up to your daughter to go knock on someone's door and say "Hi, I'm Gemma; wanna hang out/go for a walk to get ice cream/watch a Netflix show with me?"  College is not about being coddled. Your daughter needs to push herself socially. Part of college is learning how to do that. [/quote]

This comes across as rather insensitive. At least at my college, the RAs made real effort to plan activities for first year students. And it was their job to look out for the more introverted kids and try to get them to come out for some structured activities to help them meet people. [/quote]

Well, at my college the RA's were useless except for making a posterboard chart to track how often people puked from drinking. I literally DID stop in at open doors in my hallway and say "Hi, I'm Gemma; I'm going to the blah blah in 15, want to come?" all the first week I was there to make friends. I said hi to people sitting next to me in each class. I pushed myself. I was 17 and decided to ACT like the confident out-going person I wished I was.[/quote]

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