StarShine27

My sophomore year will be ending which means I'll be a junior! I'm really nervous about making new friends next year

I have friends in the clubs I am in, but I still feel lonely. They're not like my friends from home. I think it would help if I had friends in my classes, but I recently switched majors and I don't know anybody. Plus, my classes are huge so nobody really talks to each other unless they already know someone in the class.....

Can't anyone help us? Please?

I'm a sophomore at a very large (40,000 ppl) college, and I feel pretty lonely here at times. I know a lot of people here and I can always find something to do, but I'm still not completely happy here. College just isn't what I thought it would be. I always heard that you meet your "lifelong" friends at college, but I don't feel like that at all. I feel like I have lots of aquantinces but not many good friends. And the good friends I have, I honestly get annoyed with and feel I don't have a lot in common with. I am in marching band here so I know a lot of people and most of my friends have come from that. I am in a band sorority, and I am also joining a social sorority. However, I am beginning to wonder if I made a mistake because the social sorority I am joining has only 20 or so girls in it, no house (which doesn't really bother me) and everyone in my pledge class is a freshman. I got a bid from a large (80 girl) sorority but I turned it down (I'd have to live in their house the next 2 years, which I do not want to do), and I am beginning to wonder if I made a mistake. I am not a huge party person which is partly why I turned it down. I go to parties sometimes, but not as much as some of the Greek people do..... I also just switched majors, so I don't know anyone in my major. Sorry if none of this makes sense, I'm just writing what comes to me.... Basically..... I feel like I don't have a lot of real friends. I thought I'd meet people I have lots in common with here, but I really haven't. I feel like everyone here has a lot of good friends, and I don't. When I look at Facebook pictures and stuff of people they're always like "I love my girls!"" etc etc and I don't have that kind of thing with anyone here. I do not hate the school, so I do not want to transfer. I am afraid that when I'm a junior, nobody will want to make new friends....that everyone will (or already is) in their little "groups." I'm also very worried about next year because my best friend here is transferring for money reasons. I don't know what to do. I just want good friends I love as much as the ones I have back home.