Making Friends at Uni (Mainly if you're a first year)
February 1st 2008 00:00
OK, so I’m not going to lie, making friends in first year uni is HARD. This is especially true if you are in an arts based course because you are just one of HEAPS of people who are all doing different units of study (UOS) so everyone is very mixed up. This is pretty crap because often the scenario is that you have a class once a fortnight with a TOTAL HOTTIE who you just want to have eye-sex with every day. But, of course, you can’t so you spend the whole two weeks coming up with the perfect outfit to have them notice you and the perfect, cool line to spin off IF a conversation ever happens to arise. Often the ‘perfect, cool line’ may have sounded brilliant in front of your bathroom mirror but when you reply to the hottie’s simple comment of, “Man that reading was boring,” with “Yeah I just picked them up from the Bondi markets, they’re nothin’ spesh.” It can be awkward and they’ll think you’re a weirdo. Which you are.
The best way to make friends at uni (and I don’t joke here) is to join a group or society or sporting team.
There are groups like ‘the Vegan club’ and Skiing groups etc. Sporting teams are good for meeting people with similar interests. For example, join the rugby league team if you have an interest in stupid haircuts and feeling up drunk girls.
Hell, if that doesn’t work, go hang out with the Hillsong ‘people’. They will accept you and give you sausages and let you play dominoes with them no matter who you are… maybe just bring some money… you know for expenses or… more sausages… it’s up to you really… but just bring the money, OK?
Enough about the price of sausages, SOCIETIES ARE AWESOME FOR MEETING PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS. Use them wisely; don’t sign up unless you’re genuinely interested. Signing up for clubs like ‘the food and wine society’ when you’re really not into food or wine can result in a barrage of emails telling you about the next cheese meet in the Hunter Valley. This will only make you depressed thinking that if only you liked to eat food and drink wine you wouldn’t be missing out on such a good time. Seriously though, I've heard that the Hunter Valley is to die for.
Even though I have posted before about the perils of getting drunk at the uni bar with your peers DO NOT LET THIS DETER YOU! If someone tells you that a few people from class are heading to the bar for drinks GO!!! This is a great way to make friends from your course who are interesting and like to have fun. Then, when that first drinking session is over, suggest that you all do the same again next week. If they haven’t pinned you for the loner you are then they will agree and you’ll be in like Flynn. Gradually, over the weeks, the numbers will grow and the conversation will get more personal. You’ll work out who you have most in common with and who you hope develops Lupis and can’t come next week.
The best way to make friends at uni (and I don’t joke here) is to join a group or society or sporting team.
There are groups like ‘the Vegan club’ and Skiing groups etc. Sporting teams are good for meeting people with similar interests. For example, join the rugby league team if you have an interest in stupid haircuts and feeling up drunk girls.
Hell, if that doesn’t work, go hang out with the Hillsong ‘people’. They will accept you and give you sausages and let you play dominoes with them no matter who you are… maybe just bring some money… you know for expenses or… more sausages… it’s up to you really… but just bring the money, OK?
Enough about the price of sausages, SOCIETIES ARE AWESOME FOR MEETING PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS. Use them wisely; don’t sign up unless you’re genuinely interested. Signing up for clubs like ‘the food and wine society’ when you’re really not into food or wine can result in a barrage of emails telling you about the next cheese meet in the Hunter Valley. This will only make you depressed thinking that if only you liked to eat food and drink wine you wouldn’t be missing out on such a good time. Seriously though, I've heard that the Hunter Valley is to die for.
Even though I have posted before about the perils of getting drunk at the uni bar with your peers DO NOT LET THIS DETER YOU! If someone tells you that a few people from class are heading to the bar for drinks GO!!! This is a great way to make friends from your course who are interesting and like to have fun. Then, when that first drinking session is over, suggest that you all do the same again next week. If they haven’t pinned you for the loner you are then they will agree and you’ll be in like Flynn. Gradually, over the weeks, the numbers will grow and the conversation will get more personal. You’ll work out who you have most in common with and who you hope develops Lupis and can’t come next week.
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