Uni Friends

Most of my high school friends left Edinburgh to go to uni, i stayed but have made loads of mates through uni and outside it. Joining clubs and societies helped as i live at home. I have a couple of really good friends and the rest who i get on well with and hang about with between lectures.
If you see me wandering about (usually around appleton tower and the old high school) say hi. :)
 
I got here a few days ago, moved in. Then about 10 girls knock on my door and start quizzing me like the Gestapo. That was how I got to know people mostly :D

Then they dragged me out to a club last night and tried to get me to dance, but failed. My dignity is intact thankfully.
 
Last year I didn't make many as my flatmates were as unsociable, as were the people on my course. I also didn't really go to lectures and started seeing the girl across the corridor which gave me a good reason to stay in :p

Just started a new course so I haven't made any friends there yet either!
 
Made a couple by living on the same landing as them, the rest were made when I went to a party and got bladdered.

But eventually knew a fair few people from just going down the SU and into town regularly.
 
I didn't stay in halls when I moved to Heriot Watt, but even when I lived in Pollock, most of my friends were from classes rather than halls. My friends now are all people who have been on my course. At a campus uni, you kind of get thrown together with your class, as breaks won't necessarily be at the same time as other courses, and there's not really anywhere to go if you only have an hour between lectures. I like it that way though, because it has meant I've made friends with some great people :).
 
My closest friends are still the people I grew up with, with a few odd faces thrown in here and there (i.e school/uni friends of the guys I grew up with).

I'm going into my second year of uni, I suspect I will stay friends with a couple of my uni friends come the end of my degree.
 
my friends at uni stemmed from 4 places:
1) Halls, first people you'll meet and its worth bearing in mind you'll have to live with them for at least a year..

2) Course, i didnt make too many friends on my course. we got on but very few were my kinda people

3) Societies, probably the best way to meed like minded people at uni! also the best way to meet total randoms who you never would have thought you'd get on with. doesnt have to mean team sports! no you dont have to play football/rugby to be in with the cool kids...

4) Randoms! the joy of uni, oh to sit and chat until 3 in the morning with drunk people i dont know! and then again the next week until you become fast friends...

just open yourself up to all the oppertunities around you and dont get dragged into the 'god *insert city name here* is so deperessing...' gang, i was in coventry and loved it for uni dispite the city being a dive! i have a load of mates from my accomodation in my first year who kept themselves to themselves, didnt join any societies or try anything out. i guess they were happy with that but it all seems a bit limited to me.

bottom line i guess, i met all my best friends at uni (the ones who i'm really going to keep contact with) through societies. nothing better than shivvering together in wetsuits or crapping yourself up a cliff face to form mates!
 
in my 1st year my house on campus was ful of noobs so didnt hang around with them

met a few cool people in the gym, and another few from my course

only 2/3 would say are proper friends, and i got all my homies back home anyway so i dont really 'need' to meet anyone

in 3rd year now and just hang around with a few people, will probably meet more when course starts, as im goa go to lectures/classes this time, unlike last year when i went to nothing so couldnt meet anyone lol
 
I lived in what was / is a student housing estate (norfolk park for the sheffield folk on here), so there was only 6 people in my house, although on freshers week we would stumble about to see what parties were going on at other houses and stuff

made friends with a few people on my course and made friends with their friends! all good really!

i joined a few societies but they were pretty boring tbh!
 
Mephisto said:
lol...just...lol.
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well..there was 1 guy who when he was home just sat in his room, 1 time when i went up there all i saw were bags of sweets in his room and coke cans, and i'd never seen him come into the kitchen to make a proper meal
then there was a girl who was so homesick, she would drive home on thursday evening and come back on monday morning, so was literally spending 3 days at uni...
then there was another girl who was out every night and there always seemed to be a diff guy she was bringing home, and she had a BF :eek:
 
A2Z said:
well..there was 1 guy who when he was home just sat in his room, 1 time when i went up there all i saw were bags of sweets in his room and coke cans, and i'd never seen him come into the kitchen to make a proper meal
then there was a girl who was so homesick, she would drive home on thursday evening and come back on monday morning, so was literally spending 3 days at uni...
then there was another girl who was out every night and there always seemed to be a diff guy she was bringing home, and she had a BF :eek:
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Ahahaha...

Ok I see your point now :D
 
A2Z said:
well..there was 1 guy who when he was home just sat in his room, 1 time when i went up there all i saw were bags of sweets in his room and coke cans, and i'd never seen him come into the kitchen to make a proper meal
then there was a girl who was so homesick, she would drive home on thursday evening and come back on monday morning, so was literally spending 3 days at uni...
then there was another girl who was out every night and there always seemed to be a diff guy she was bringing home, and she had a BF :eek:
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In Brighton I was in Phoenix Halls (if anyone knows it), B block ground floor flat. 2 flats to a floor and 8 rooms to a flat. And our 2 flats on the ground floor were really friendly to each other, to a point where we would put the latch on the front door on the flat during waking hours so we could pop over to each other's easier. 15 of us would hang out, drinking, take aways, cooking, clubbing, camp fire...etc

Yes, 15, the odd one out was 1 guy that stayed in his room playing on the computer all day. I got nothing against him doing that, and its up to him but it wasn't very sociable. We hardly ever see him, I certainly didn't much, I think the whole year I saw him twice. Once when he was moving out, and one time he came into the kitchen to put something in the oven. He would eat only ready meals, so he never cooks thus can't catch him to even say hi. He would take his pc to Lan Parties (according to others who did see him). We did try to include him, not necessarily drinking (if he's not into that), but general chat, he wasn't interested. After so many rejections, we stopped asking and I would go as far to say he literally didn't exists in our floor, people actually forget he lives there.

He totally missed the point of living away from home in uni IMO, especially in halls as well.
 
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