Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Getting Along with Other Students

Everyone goes to college wanting to make new friends, people they can hang out with after class and on the weekends. Hopefully ones that will be there when you need help or someone to talk to. Not everyone though can be your best friend. You have to figure out what you interests are and if you want friends who are going to distract you from everything important or ones who care about the schooling part of college as much as you do. Trusting the people you think you can be friends with too fast after getting into college can prove to be a big problem. Since you really don't know anything about these people, you have no idea if they are going to be the ones to leave you at a party to get in trouble. Or if they are two-faced and are friends with you one day and the next won't even look at you. If they pull a fast one over on you then it is not worth it to waste your time trying to be their friends. As a college student you get to make your own decisions and one of them is the people you want to be associated with, so choose carefully.
Another aspect of social relations at college is that of relationships, whether your the male, or female it is never a good idea to just jump into things, literally. Wait awhile before you decide to claim that you and the other person are together. Otherwise they could end up being the biggest jerk on campus. Or the one that never stays the night in their own room. Either way that friendship that was their could possibly be lost because of a speedy entrance into the relationship world.

1 comment:

Kristin said...

I had this happen to me one time. My freshman year in college i loved my roommates. we lived in the dorm but was more like an apartment there were 2 bedrooms and 2 people stayed in each. i became close friends with a girl in the room below mine and we were roommates the next year along with one of my roommates from freshman year. as it turns out they werent my friends at all. they started to leave me out let me struggle through classes. they are part of the reason i transfered and now live at home.