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I hate college.

I'm lonely and bored and people ignore me or don't notice me and I'm always afraid the ones I call my friends secretly hate me and are laughing behind my back. They never look for me anyway. Nobody does, except my Star Wars GM. I feel like I have no friends.

You always have friends here Lucca! And if you want to get noticed, just get some weiners, strap them together on your chest with those big velcro vests, stick some wires to it and make them connect to a little cylinder of metal with a red button on top and look edgy all the time eek I garantee, you'll be getting a lot of attention 3nodding

Welcome to your freshman year of college.

Go join some clubs or if you don't feel like doing that go door-to-door in the dorms and introduce yourself. Everyone else is feeling the same way and even if you're never too close to your dormmates, it's a comforting feeling to know who they are and that they know you.

Find a class you love and excel in it. Chances are the professor will notice and you can get lots of opporunities for interesting stuff that way. I still talk to a professor from freshman year about stuff.

Just make an effort to get out and do stuff. This isn't highschool - no one is going to coddle you here. If they ignore you, find someone else. If they don't notice you, well, this is college. Make yourself noticable. I've had to go up to the boys in my CS classes and inform them that yes, it is okay to talk to girls and they can stop ignoring me now, and I still talk to a couple of them from that class.

But most of all, stop looking at what a lonely and miserable experience this is and look at it for all the possiblities and opportunities you have. Because if you tell yourself you hate college all the time, then you will, and no one - absolutely no one - will bother to help you change that. You have to do that yourself.

I'm being harsh because everyone I knew who had the 'I hate college' attitude dropped out. Missed out on a lot of really, really neat stuff.

I still like my weiner bomb idea better... stare

Sorry. That sounded like a freshman rant to me.

Okay, you're being far too passive about this. Not wanting to bother anyone... carrying around a sketchbook in case someone notices... and dressing noticably doesn't work that well. You are literally going to have to go up to people and say "I don't know you, what's your name and want to get lunch?"

Okay, wisdom from the roomie. "Well, the best way to be invisible is to keep doing what you're doing. If you want to be noticed, you've got to take the first step."

I mean, good LORD, I met my current roomie (the one I quoted above) because we happened to meet on a chatroom and I went up there, stuck my head in the door and said "Hi, I'm Kiddo. You must Aelisha. Wanna get lunch?" I met Victor because he was going door to door giving away fruit in the dorms. And I got in the SCA because I heard someone in the hallway say "swords" and I literally grabbed him and asked "WHERE?" I got in my D&D group because I went to their meeting, pushed my way into a game, and refused to leave, even though everyone was wondering what the hell this little kid was doing joining them. (I'm second oldest but I look about four years younger than I am)

If you're miserable, then do something to change it. Else you'll continue to hate college and that's a real shame because it can be a lot of fun if you're bold enough.

people are stupid because they are people... simple as that..


*tackles eshock* i'm not a drama llama i'm a spaz!! get it right! besides kiddo knows i'm a worry wart... i believe it's because i care to much.

And more importantly, Gino has no pants.