Hello, I am starting uni of birmingham as a fresher in September. I originally wanted to move into halls for first year and then move back home for 2nd and 3rd, since my uni is close enough for me to commute. However, due to not being able to get more hours at work, my student loan being the minimum and my parents unable to give me any money towards university, I realised that I can’t afford to move out, or even if I could just about afford the rent and groceries, I would have £0 left for going out, societies, clothes, etc, and would basically end up miserable and broke. All the advice online is telling me that if you are a shy person then you are 100% going to struggle to make friends if you don’t live at uni, and as an introvert this is making me really worried that I’m not going to meet anyone. Does anyone have any advice about whether staying at home for uni will really affect my social life that much or how to make friends/connections, especially during freshers week, if you live at home. I am planning to join a society so I know that I could meet people there. I just don’t want to end up stuck at home during freshers week with no one to talk to and no where to go.