Having minimal friends at university.

You could join some societies? Though I guess they are winding down after easter.

If you're doing a foundation year you could always live in halls next year if you are starting a degree course at year 1, and try and get into sociable halls

Hi thanks for the reply , i did join some societies and wish i stuck to them, its just that they were expensive ones (climbing and skydiving) :P and needed to save my money for rent etc as i only had my loan back then. Yeah i was thinking of applying for Halls of residence next year and going to look around a couple tomorrow - considered moving uni but i think that having barely any social life is the real problem, which is down to me.

I'm in exactly the same position. In college I had a huge and diverse group of friends and found it easy to get along with people. I'm not weird and I'm sociable; I'm in the uni choir and write for their newspaper. But at uni I haven't clicked with anyone. I sound like a loser admitting it but I do not have a single friend. It makes me sad when I see all my college friends at other unis having the time of their life.

I think the style of my uni and my course makes it much more difficult to meet people. I get just a couple of hours contact time a week, the rest of the time we're expected to do independent reading. There are only 11 people on my course... 6 of them just don't talk at all. Two are internationals. and the other three are the arrogant "I'm so competitive" and "I think I'm better then anyone else" type.

and we live in rooms dotted all over the place rather than flats... so its not like I have flatmates to chat to or anything.

Looking back I can really see that I didn't think these kind of practical things through when choosing a uni. Applying for 2010 entry was kind of a last minute decision (I had planned a gap year for a long time) so now things havent worked out I really regret rushing into it all and wasting myself a lot of money.

I knew that my unhappiness lay in the nature of my university more than anything and so I decided to reapply. I'm planning to start at a different uni in September that I feel I'm way more suited to

For you I would say join lots of societies. Talk to people on your course. chat to them in lectures. I'm sure you have way more lectures and people on your course than me!

Thats sounds horrible, yeah i have 4 hours of contact time but thats ended now and even then i had learnt everything in sixth form so the lectures got boring and i tended to skip some. Hope things work out for you , you feel happier applying elsewhere btw?

Im in exactly the same situation doin the exact same course in man met which is a bit odd. My flat mates r sooo boring and i havent really clicked with anybody on the course. The odd times that i have been out my flat mates complained about making "too much noise" coming home. Its quite depressin seeing people back home enjoying uni life rather than being without what you could call proper friends. I do have the odd person to speak to but nobody that i would call friends if that makes sense.
Ive applied to move back home next year n been accepted so just looking forward to that really