As per title, there's just something about the way that University works that I find myself feeling very withdrawn and lonely.
At the start it was great. I got to meet so many people continuously. Going out all of the time and there was a really great vibe. Unfortunately though this has worn off over time. Friendship groups have solidified. Friendships within my own friendship group have become stale and some friends have either dropped out or fallen out with the group. My course is very intensive so people go out less and less as the year has progressed into the second semester. Even in lectures/tutorials people's attendance has dropped so you end up seeing people less and less. My flatmates and I don't get on at all which has been really miserable - it's extremely isolating to be stuck here in this room all by myself every night.
I find that university has become a thoroughly lonely experience despite the fact that I have a fairly solid group of friends here. Social groups become very peculiar after a certain point in semester 1. It's almost as if you can only mix with the people in your group. It's all very cliquey. People are far less receptive to being approached or meeting new people. Unfortunately my uni is AWFUL for societies etc, literally dead.
It's just gone so stale and it's affecting my confidence/state of mind. I really have been quite down at times because of certain social ways of Uni. I lack the sense of happiness/confidence I had at the start of the year. I find myself struggling psychologically.
It was exciting to begin with but then it became stale, and tough mentally? Why has the excitement gone? Is that normal for everyone else? Are there others finding it the same?