&gt;I spent my freshman fall pretty much just going to class and straight back to my dorm. [...] one of the guys I&#x27;d sat next to in the intro to engineering class invited me to rush his fraternity. [...] I met so many amazing, awesome people it blew my mind.<p>So I find this slightly confusing, because in my experience of university, the fact I was living in dorms already offered me the opportunities to meet people that you&#x27;re talking about.
Pretty much from the day I arrived, people were sat talking in the corridors, and everyone else was as anxious to meet new people as I was, so I don&#x27;t know how I could have avoided making friends.<p>That said, I do know that despite my social anxieties, I tend to be pretty comfortable talking to people I don&#x27;t know that well (if anything, more so than people I do), so that might have made it easier than I realised.<p>One thing that does occur to me though, is in the UK alcohol is readily available to students. I realise US colleges are hardly dry, but I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s not quite the same as the UK, where almost every student will have their own stock of preferred drinks ready for any social occasion.