I got the internet working in my dorm! Also, moved into my dorm.
D'awwww. I was just talking about my old dorm like an hour ago; I was saying I don't know how I ever made it in such tiny living conditions with community bathrooms for a whole year without shooting myself.
Have fun! Dorm life is seriously a blast. As long as you actually hang out with people; don't shut yourself in! GO CRAZY WHOOO COLLEGE
Well how long have you been in college? My first week in college was horrible... I didn't know ANYBODY and I felt more alone than I have ever felt in my entire life.
Second week(end) of college I managed to find one person who would talk to me, hung out with him, ABSOLUTELY turned my freshman year into a total shit storm that changed me for the rest of my life, and made friends that would eventually introduce me to my best friends and current roommates. College has been/is a total trip for me... I'm definitely, definitely going to miss it when I leave.
I know my experiences I've had throughout college aren't exactly the norm, but regardless: college should be a blast. Here's to hoping you make the most of it without doing anything completely retarded (and getting in trouble for it).
It's still my first weekend, mostly I've just played Team Fortress 2. I guess I'll probably start to meet people once I start classes, but it's kind of discouraging when I find myself walking behind two people who just met and a quarter mile later they're already exchanging numbers and making plans to do stuff. They make meeting people look easy, and I'm terrible at it.
I didn't bring my DDR pads because mine are the harder foam ones and don't roll up. Besides, there's an In The Groove machine at the student union if I ever wanted to play.
1) Keep your door open when you're in the room. If you're playing a video or computer game, turn the volume up a bit so people passing by your room can hear it faintly. We met our big group of friends because they heard us playing Diablo 2.
2) Frequent that ITG machine. Eventually you'll run into some other DDRers and you might hit it off.
3) Be forward with people. If you see someone else playing a cool video game or watching a cool movie or playing ITG, start a conversation. Sometimes this can be awkward; we've had people make it blatantly clear that they didn't want to talk to us. But eventually you should find some nice people.
First day of class I went to a foam party... that was pretty fun.
I also came to the realization that first week that it is SO HARD to talk to people you don't know if you don't have ANY other person to call a friend. The fear of rejection is a lot stronger when you don't have at least one other person to fall back on. Once you finally meet that one person (perhaps your roommate, maybe someone in your class), it's a lot easier to just introduce yourself. If you get rejected it doesn't matter as much; the more friends you have, the easier it is to randomly talk to other students.
My first week of college (which was last year, i'm a late bloomer big deal wanna fight about it?) was pretty cool. Here in Ireland they group all the different degree courses in together so you meet each other and all your teachers and shit on the first day. Second day in I went to the planned orientation and saw one of the guys I met the day before, we decided to skip out and head to the bar (on campus of course, it's Ireland for fucks sake!) ended up drinking there for a while and then we went back to his campus accommodation which was filled with American international students (I was immediately at home with them being an ex-pat myself). Ended up partying with them the whole year before they went home. Leave it to me to find the Americans at an Irish school...
Take friends where you can get them. Being "cool" matters less now than it ever did. Every year will be different. Network. Meet your roomies' friends, and the girls down the hall. Get locked out of your apartment once in a while so you can seek help or sanctuary. Enjoy group projects. Join teams, clubs, radio station, exchange, hippie recycling groups. Take people up on offers: LAN parties, Denny's at 2am, Christian Potluck (or any religion/ethnic group! awesome food), Inuyasha marathon.
My first week of college was the best week of my life. I was in an on campus apartment and nobody knew me. I was completely left alone.
Sir, we alike in many ways. Social interaction recharges some people and drains others. It's a drain to me.
My college experience differed since I did not go to a 4 year college and didn't move out (no dorms for me). Still, 2-year colleges are more focused on a subject, so I would start to see a lot of the same people in a lot of my classes, and they were inclined to have interests comparable to mine, so it was actually really easy to get to know them. We could hang out between classes or if they weren't around I could go hide in some corner, hook my laptop up and surf the internet. That's actually partly how I ended up here.
I never played DDR. Actually the only way I relate to DDR at all is by this thing I made back in the day. So naturally, I get the urge to punch things when DDR comes up, but in a good way.
I've been DMing a campaign recently. I got the Pathfinder core rulebook today though. After a brief overlook I'm wondering if I could convert my campaign over to it before people character's develop too much. The main issue with that is Azrodal has a huge multiclassing build made up and its pretty kickass, wouldn't work in PF though....
Haha, come to think of it, I made my first friends in college by joining a Dnd campaign. The campaign ultimately failed and we only met up a single time, but that's all it took; I met the people, hung out with them for those few hours and for the rest of that weekend, and everything took off from there.
Greg laughed at me when I said I liked to play DnD, but then I found out he had several level 80 WoW accounts. It is my opinion that you can't make fun of someone for being a nerd if you are in possession of SEVERAL level 80 accounts.
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Success!
Except not really because THE WORLD IS GOING TO END TOMORROW OMG.
D'awwww. I was just talking about my old dorm like an hour ago; I was saying I don't know how I ever made it in such tiny living conditions with community bathrooms for a whole year without shooting myself.
Have fun! Dorm life is seriously a blast. As long as you actually hang out with people; don't shut yourself in! GO CRAZY WHOOO COLLEGE
I'm actually kind of pissed at myself for how much of a hermit I'm being. So hopefully I'll stop that soon.
Second week(end) of college I managed to find one person who would talk to me, hung out with him, ABSOLUTELY turned my freshman year into a total shit storm that changed me for the rest of my life, and made friends that would eventually introduce me to my best friends and current roommates. College has been/is a total trip for me... I'm definitely, definitely going to miss it when I leave.
I know my experiences I've had throughout college aren't exactly the norm, but regardless: college should be a blast. Here's to hoping you make the most of it without doing anything completely retarded (and getting in trouble for it).
Wonder what it would have been like if I chose not to bring it.
I didn't bring my DDR pads because mine are the harder foam ones and don't roll up. Besides, there's an In The Groove machine at the student union if I ever wanted to play.
1) Keep your door open when you're in the room. If you're playing a video or computer game, turn the volume up a bit so people passing by your room can hear it faintly. We met our big group of friends because they heard us playing Diablo 2.
2) Frequent that ITG machine. Eventually you'll run into some other DDRers and you might hit it off.
3) Be forward with people. If you see someone else playing a cool video game or watching a cool movie or playing ITG, start a conversation. Sometimes this can be awkward; we've had people make it blatantly clear that they didn't want to talk to us. But eventually you should find some nice people.
I also came to the realization that first week that it is SO HARD to talk to people you don't know if you don't have ANY other person to call a friend. The fear of rejection is a lot stronger when you don't have at least one other person to fall back on. Once you finally meet that one person (perhaps your roommate, maybe someone in your class), it's a lot easier to just introduce yourself. If you get rejected it doesn't matter as much; the more friends you have, the easier it is to randomly talk to other students.
My college experience differed since I did not go to a 4 year college and didn't move out (no dorms for me). Still, 2-year colleges are more focused on a subject, so I would start to see a lot of the same people in a lot of my classes, and they were inclined to have interests comparable to mine, so it was actually really easy to get to know them. We could hang out between classes or if they weren't around I could go hide in some corner, hook my laptop up and surf the internet. That's actually partly how I ended up here.
Oh, and we did do a LAN party at least once.
That's good for you though, good way to relax and hang out with buddies.
Yeah, while Pathfinder is awesome, it does indeed fuck up this build a great deal.
Greg laughed at me when I said I liked to play DnD, but then I found out he had several level 80 WoW accounts. It is my opinion that you can't make fun of someone for being a nerd if you are in possession of SEVERAL level 80 accounts.