Going into 2nd year of uni, how to make friends?

Long story short, in first year of uni I pretty much cut off any social life for my boyfriend - i went to lectures and apart from that stayed home, politely excused myself from any social events and didn't really text anyone. It all happened slowly so I didn't really realise what I was doing till the end of the year. I tried to be more outgoing then but everyone has already made friends and is in groups and I couldn't really fit in/join now. How do I make friends when I go back in 2nd year? I dont really have any interests so clubs and societies arent really an option, im looking at coursemates really but people already hang out in groups and go places in groups, and as i used to come straight home after lectures i never really had group.
I would really appreciate advice, I feel so lost and alone

Heya :-)
I was in exactly the same position as you for the first half of my year.
It was only after a horrible breakup that I realised how bad it had gotten (and I'm now ecstatic it ended at least when it did, I wish I'd never been with him now)
aha, but anyway. I struggled at first, but luckily still being in halls I had the chance to hang out at dinner and I pretty quickly managed to save myself, and ended up with amazing friends

I too however have neglected coursemates though as well, and am worried about that for next year.
I wouldn't recommend coursemates anyway because I didn't find a group of them forming easily at all anyway, but again no harm in trying.

I can't pretend it isn't harder being second year to start again - people will already have friends. But then again, a lot of people at uni are very friendly.
You need to keep in mind most of these people have only really known each other a few months. Most housing groups change - thus friends change.
Where are you living? Maybe there's opportunity there?

You say you don't have any interests - you must have at least something. My uni has soo many clubs that I guarantee you'd find something. Or take up a new hobby! (pole dance for instance?)

Also, anyone you are even only friendly with a little - become a tag along. When alcohol's involved then it all only becomes easier. (I went to dinner with the girl who lived opposite me, and it all really started from there)

Uhm, I can't think of anything else atm but I'm sure there is hope! I did it in a couple of months after this winter, your timing may be a little later but it's uni after all

Hey! Kinda surprised to find someone who was in the same situation but it was very reassuring, thanks for your reply
Well that's sort of the ******* - I wont be in halls any more next year so I wont have that way of making friends, all I'll have is coursemates. I think I'm living alone tbh, either that or with an international student who i'm sort of friends with but she's very quiet and doesn't really talk to anyone else so wouldn't particularly be a route to make friends!
Good advice with the tagging along bit, it's just the people who are vague acquantances used to ask me to do stuff ages ago and I'd always say no so now they assume i wont be doing anything and just say hi and bye to me really - which is all my own fault, because i was the one who'd cut conversation short and never hang around after lectures etc. Gosh, I feel so stupid!

Ah yes, but are you living in like a house with others? Could you not buddy up with them then? Or if it's not sorted - look for a space in an established house (where someone has dropped out)? we have a lot of those at our uni, and if you find a group you got along with..

Make the effort to reconnect then and ask them. Yes it feels a little bit like crawling back (I did the same with at home friends) but I'm sure they'll understand If they tried at one point then they clearly wanted to be friends!

go out to night klubs dancing and frinedly

No, I'm living like alone-alone, in a flat it seems. Or with the international student I mentioned in a flat.
How do I ask though? Sounds really weird I know but I literally don't know how, everyone just seems to be going off doing their own thing with their own friends!
I think that was just because they were all new and looking for friends tbh rather than cos they liked me!

If you don't have hobbies/interests, get some! Uni is a great time to try out new things. Before you get too stuck into the work for your course try out a few things & get a feel for which you like and keep going with that.

Ah, how come you don't know for sure?

I would just text/message asking how they are doing now, and every so often maybe. Then back at uni text asking if they want to go for coffee/drinks etc. Hopefully after that they'd get the message
Still, most people who are uni friends now aren't the closest yet!

And join some clubs

I still haven't sorted if our, ridiculously late I know and another thing to stress about!
Really, just randomly text saying meet for drinks? Like can you do that with someone you're not really friends with?

Then you could sneak into a big house maybe! :P
I think so, just asking how they are.

Aha, when I had to start it was the desperate please on my blocks whatsapp group asking if anyone was going to dinner, then propping my door open so they couldn't walk past without taking me with them :P

Hey,
I finished my degree last year and I am about to start my postgraduate.
Im going to start by saying I made a lot of friends in first year who I lived with, however I did not make a single friend on my course.
Starting in second yeaf my biggest piece of advice is make friends in seminars or smaller modules when people are cut off from their regular group.
I met one of my best friends that way and she introduced me to her group and they are still my friends now. It is harder but just start by saying hi or getting to a newclass early to find a seat.

Similar position here... I started late at uni and by that time I'd already got a boyfriend in the town so I also only really came in for lectures. But I guess my advice would be, if it's a small town then just try to meet other people in any way you can. Maybe get a casual/weekend job in a place where other young people hang out? Or you could make work for yourself whereby you'd get to meet people (e.g. you could offer to proof read the essays of foreign students for a beer money kind of price). And if you genuinely have no interests then you could always join some revision group. Although feigning an interest is not so difficult.

Haha, well the reason I can't is that my family are pretty intent on buying a place there and they want either a studio or place for 2 people.
Haha I'm glad that actually worked out! I'm so stupid, I had so many opportunities last year with flatmates and now they're all gone so when I go back I just message people like hey wanna meet up tomorrow?

Yeah why not
I would drop a few how's summer though before so it'd not out of the blue!