How to make friends Exeter

Honestly, I've felt pretty much the same way until I learned the reason why. For context, the people in my grade are weird, not necessarily like bad influence in the sense that they do drugs and stuff, but weird as in they talk *ahem* *ahem* stuff that I don't really like. I used to hang around them and pretend to understand what they were talking about, but I still felt lonely, because I didn't have a proper connection with anyone, was never really invited to their outings, etc.
The problem was I was holding on to these people thinking they were the best I could get, so I didn't really explore my options.
Later I sort of cut them off and held them at an arms-length, and found people that are more like me. Because they weren't exactly my friends, we were just people tolerating each other.
So...What I am trying to say is: try and find people that are more like you in character, so you are on the same wavelength during every conversation and can create that connection.
I don't really know if this helps, but really hope it does. If you want to talk about it, you can always reach out to me.

Hi,
I know this is a dumb question, but I'm a fresher halfway into second term and have literally 0 close friends, how do I make some? It seems like at every social I go to now, everyone else already has their friends, or simply no one goes. THe reason I didn't make any friends in first term is mostly bc of flatmate drama (one of them tried to get with me, I refused, now half of the flat that they are in a group with just ignores me, ffs what was I meant to do there just accept them so I wouldn't get socially shunned?). I went to some socials but I always had no one to go with, bc of my flatmates not liking me, and it felt like everyone else was just using the socials as a pres with people they already knew and already had TP tickets with.
I just want to find a few people, girls or boys but preferably girls, to go clubbing with or go to the beach with or just talk to. Anyone else in the same situation?