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How many friends do you have on your course?

I started uni a couple of weeks ago and have only made friends with one person on my course. Everyone else seems to be the same. No one really speaks to each other much. Is this the norm??

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Reply 1

paulocoelho<3

i'm trying to make as many friends as i can but it is hard bc i am an international students but i really want to..
anyway i can see that all the others have found some friends 2 or 3. but there r others who just talk to each other rather randomly

Reply 2

Hylean

depends on the size of the department. smaller departments the students all group together cause you sort of have to, you're with each other all the time. bigger departments it's more a small group of people, like 2 or 3 because you don't meet the same people from day to day. clubs and societies are a good place to make friends though.

Reply 3

cpj1987

I talk to everyone on my course a fair bit; but I'd say I have 8 close friends.

My course is a very team-based one though, so there're plenty of chances for interaction, and I'm now in my second year.

Reply 4

devilsthorn

I would say a couple whom I talk to now and then, but no one I keep in contact with outside of my course.

Reply 5

la fille danse

One, but I never see them outside of classes.

Reply 6

Kate.

It's the same on my course. Everyone seems to have 1-4 people they mainly speak to and hang around with. In the team project, of course we have to all speak to each other and that's okay. I think it's pretty normal to just find a few friends for most people...even with your flatmates I'm sure you tend to be closer to 1 or 2 than the rest.

Reply 7

strawberry_wise

I'm on a pretty small course - less than 25 people now we're in third year - and by now, everyone is pretty much friends with everyone. In first year, people just talked to the people in their production groups but now we've gelled together a bit more. I regularly see about 7 of them outside classes. It'll take time for people to get to know each other.

Reply 8

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I get to each lecture about half an hour before it starts, therefore I am sitting all alone for at least 15 minutes until other people turn up. If they come and sit near me, good for them. If they sit far far away, then obviously I will look like a loner.

Reply 9

username94219

Umm i have 2 friends who i meet and talk to alot of the time but now tryin to make more friends, talk to other people on my course.

Reply 10

Candy_Shop

Haven't really made that much friend on my course. To be honest, though, I haven't made any effort with any of them. Need to though ... gonna be spending a lot of time in that department. 9-5/6 days most days :rolleyes:

I'll have to see what they're like out.

Reply 11

Truered

Now then....

There's one person I talk to, and if I see him sit next to him in lectures. He's currently off campus and waiting to see if there's a place, so I only see him at lectures.

Then there's someone else who recognizes me and sometimes says hi.

Yeah that's about it.

Reply 12

L i b

I speak to a few people on my course as 'friends' I suppose - I rarely see them outside of uni or such. Almost all my uni friends are based on my social circle I had in halls (ie, expanded out, incorporating their friends etc).

To be frank, most people on my course seem to be slightly sociopathic or complete arseholes. Perhaps the nature of studying a law degree, eh? That said, I usually get on well with complete arseholes... but anyway...

There's even a Law Society, which is very active and is basically a social thing. I went to a few events when I was in first year, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. Never really involved myself in it again.

Just depends on the person/course, really. Some people have loads of lecture friends, some just waltz in and waltz out of classes having spoken to nobody.

Reply 13

robert1987

When I was at university I didn't really make any proper friends on my course-all my friends were in halls and societies. There must have been about 200-300 people on my course so it was quite impersonal, plus I always seem to be more sociable outside a work/class environment.

Reply 14

Poica

I have one friend on my course...and I'm in third year...and he's in none of my classes.

It really doesn't matter too much though

Reply 15

brak3n

Me and my friends seem to be a bit unusual in that there is a decent number of us who always tend to sit together as a group. I think we've just been lucky in getting to know each other.
I get the impression the majority made their closest friends through where they lived in the first year, rather than on the course.

Reply 16

abc101

None lol. And people from my course are the only people I've spoken to, bar like two others, so it doesn't make for a happy existence! Most of the people on my course really don't seem like the kind of people you want to be in the same room with, let alone be friends with. They all act the same, dress the same, talk the same, and are so bloody annoying!

Reply 17

bright star

most of my friends are halls people. i do have friends on my course. when i go into lecture, i'll sit next to people i know and we'll chat and get along grand. but i wouldn't say we do a lot together outside of that kind of setting. except the occasional night out that basically the whole year goes on....

Reply 18

hippieglitter

I only have one, cos i'm retaking my 2nd year and all my other freinds are in the year above and i met this girl in my very first lecture and she just happened to ask if i was retaking and she is too, so we are in the same boat and can chat about it.

Reply 19

HJV

Currently I've only one person in the course that I've met many times outside the course. There's some sharing individual modules with me that I'm also friends with. In total, there's about 20 people I would say "hi" to if i met them randomly somewhere (doesn't mean they're "friends").

However, in general, I do not have very many friends on the course. I don't really care, though. Easier to concentrate on lectures.

I've made dozens and dozens of friends in the hall and through societies, however. The classroom (aka seminar) isn't exactly the best environment to make friends, especially in uni where you generally only have one or two classes per module per week... The lectures are even worse for making friends..