>>82121652 (OP)I don't think it was worth it to talk to anyone anyways. It seems to be the case that if you don't entrench yourself into a friend group during orientation, freshman dorm move-ins, or within the first two weeks of your first semester, you are basically guaranteed to be alone because all the other first-years have already formed their cliques. The rest of your college experience is now relegated to getting stonewalled by these established cliques who don't need any more friends or your other option is to be gatekept by clubs that already have pre-established group dynamics where you will absolutely start at the bottom of normie hell if you can even manage to integrate. To elaborate a bit more, if you do establish yourself in these friend groups late, then you will be forced to be a 2nd, 3rd, or worse order friend, not the best friend that they've known since the beginning of college. This probably sucks the most since there is a huge quality of life difference between an acquaintance, friend, and best friend amongst social circles. God forbid you get relegated to the stooge (a type of acquaintance, not a real friend) that everyone puts down and uses to make themselves look better.
