She said something about how she thinks I should have half a dozen close friends at school. My response was 'Would you like me to walk around wearing a sign that says: Be my friend!' Hee. I've had that conversation with my mom more times than I care to remember.
I honestly think my housing situation had a *huge* impact on the way I made friends. Most people I know here who are put into suites like I am either don't really get along with their roommates or the four people are attached at the hips. Lucky for them, they walked into these great friendships. So, so true. I was in a 5-person suite freshman year, and there ended up being 2 pairs of BFFs (well, at least for the first semester) and me. Not fun.
Exactly, SS. That was precisely what happened to me. It also didn't help that during orientation I was not so keen on going partying and such. Same here. For example, my roommate from last year is currently living with the other suitemate of mine she became best friends with and some of the other girls they met while partying during Welcome Week. I went to a club with them once that week and felt so awkward - I think I was literally the only sober person in the entire building. Then I tried going to a club by myself and got so creeped out by the whole experience that I don't get why people like it so much.
The worst situation for me is when I'm with two people who know each other. I tend to just sit there. That's also why I'm wary about meeting someone and then doing something with that person and their group of friends. When I'm out of the loop, I tend to just sit there in silence. STORY.OF.MY.LIFE. I
still feel awkward when I'm hanging out with a group of my closest friends from high school because they've all known each other since at least junior high and I only met them in high school, so they have this whole history that I wasn't part of.
(note: crappy roommate stories provide excellent bonding material) So true. My current roommate and I bonded at room selection last year over tales of our then-roomies from hell
For me, what sucked the most about orientation was that all of the other schools at NYU had theirs over the summer and my school had it the week between move-in day and the first day of classes, which was the general Welcome Week for all new students. There were so many non-mandatory all-NYU Welcome Week events and workshops that sounded so interesting that I couldn't go to because I had my school's required orientation activities. It also sucked that my suitemates were out partying until 3 in the morning when I had to be on campus at 9 for orientation stuff.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
