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Originally Posted by jo87
This issue of making friends in university has always been interesting to me. I have found few people that are actually approachable, most people seem like incredible snobs. Even the students that are suppose to welcome you during welcome week seem like snobs and only seem to be appealing to loud obnoxious people. Being a shy person makes it much harder to meet people. Anyways the easiest way I've found to make friends is to discover something you have in common from the beginning. If you have nothing in common don't even bother.
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I completely disagree. I find most people to be approachable and friendly--of course, you have idiots everywhere, but the vast majority of people are quite nice.
I also didn't find that the WW reps were only appealing to loud obnoxious people...starting first year I was pretty shy (although I have become less shy as the years went by), and going to WW events with my res, I met many of my really good friends. I had amazing reps, who made WW an amazing experience. Some of the reps were shy too, so there was a really good balance.
There are very few people you'll have NOTHING in common with, the challenge is finding the commonalities. You have to give people a chance. You won't become really good friends with everyone, but even if you meet people who become friendly acquaintances, that's something
