1. When you arrive on campus with no friends and have to start from scratch.
2. Questioning whether the friends you made in your first week really like you or if they will abandon ship at the first opportunity.
3. Three words: Random. Roommate. Assignments.
4. "Participation counts for 20% of your grade."
5. "You can choose your own groups for this next project!"
6. Playing the "Class Friend or Real Friend?" game.
7. When you run into that one friend-slash-acquaintance whose name you don't know because you've now passed the point where it was OK to ask.
8. Going to the dining hall by yourself because your friends are all in class.
9. Awkwardly explaining that yes, you WANT to stay in and do nothing as everyone on your floor gets ready to go out on Friday night.
10. Or awkwardly WANTING to go out with everyone on Friday night, but making excuses for why you want to stay in, anyway.
11. Icebreakers in every new class.
12. Emailing your professor in any capacity.
13. Holding your pee when there are people partying in the hall outside your room so you don't have to walk in front of them on your way to the bathroom.
14. Suffering through the same small talk conversation with every new person you run into.
15. When you accept a bunch of invitations from potential new friends in a fit of optimism only to freak out and cancel them later.
16. Carefully planning a question to ask in class, getting up the courage to actually ask it — and then word vomiting everywhere.
17. Winding up super sick because you can't convince yourself to go to the on-campus health clinic.
18. Trying to sneak in quietly when you're late to a lecture, but managing to capture EVERYONE'S attention anyway.
19. Getting way too drunk at a party, because a little ~liquid courage~ sounded like a good idea at the time.
20. When you need to go to office hours for help but you would rather risk failing than spend one-on-one time with your professor.
21. Holding in coughs in class so you don't disrupt anyone.
22. Holding on to your test until someone else finishes first so you won't be the first one to walk up.
23. Attempting to meet someone outside of Tinder or OkCupid.
LOL, what is dating?
24. When you show up to a new club meeting where you don't know anyone...and everyone already knows each other.
25. Dropping a class when you find out that it involves a big presentation BECAUSE NOPE.
26. When people in your dorm insist on small talk in the communal bathrooms.
27. Arriving to a party/class/event before any of your friends do.
28. Or arriving late, after they're already wasted and IMPOSSIBLE to track down.
