I wanted to have people's opinions on a dilemma I am having.
At the moment I do a very interactive and intense course , which requires me to go into uni every day and attend lectures for around 4-6 hours (which is crazy compared to a lot of other courses that only have students go in 2-3 times a week). I have a good set of friends in this course that I enjoy spending time and tackling tough coursework questions with. My issue is that for the next academic year, i desperately want to branch out and find new friends that have nothing to do with my course/friends in the course.
This is because as well as the 4-6hrs every day, I usually am at the library with the same friends until late because of the courseworks. This means I am constantly surrounded by the same people and honestly its led me to feel a little suffocated (although i love them).
I really want to go to societies on my own and meet people there but I feel sort of guilty for some reason, as if I am gatekeeping certain friends from my coursemates or whatever. Theres already someone in my course who introduced some of my friends to her external friendship and drama has already started between them all and that put me off from mixing course friends with others.
Is it a bad thing to want another group of friends outside of my course and not hang out with these course friends in my leisure time as much? How would you deal with this situation???