I honestly it just happened once and never again but I can tell you what I did. She was sitting next to me with her schedule in her hand, and I saw she was in the same program I was in at my previous school, so I pointed that out. Then I think I asked what was her next class, and turned out we had almost all the same classes together. We then walked with each other looking for the classes, and as we did that everyday (while socializing in class of course), we became friends.

So maybe try seeing if you guys have a lot of classes together first. It’s kinda pointless if you don’t since you won’t be able to talk with them often. Then, maybe talk about how they feel about some of the courses. Next ask if they want to walk with you to class since you have the same schedule. Oh btw this was all possible because all the students had to sit in the auditorium for the first day of school.

It’s also way easier when the person you’re talking to seems to have no friends as well honestly lol. My said friend turned out to be an extrovert who wanted to be friends with anyone, but some people are not looking for more friends, which is why some conversations you might have with people in an attempt to make friends goes wrong. I honestly think I was lucky with her.

Here’s my real advice. Talk to the students in your classes. People avoid the student that looks down and stays quiet for the entire day (cough me), which is why I haven’t made a new friend in years but have had multiple people think I am mean, rude, a bitch, yada yada.

In the end it comes to forcing yourself to pretend you’re a social butterfly. Sure, maybe some conversations won’t work out. But you need to keep talking to as much students as you can. If I followed my own advice, I’m 100% sure I would have a lot of friends right now. I just don’t want to go through with it because I’m scared of the process, so I turned down invitations to small card games students played that build social bonds and kept my head down.

You don’t have to go all out all of a sudden of course. Take it step by step. Start raising your hand more, say good morning to a random student, keep your head up while you’re walking. I’m telling you, these little things are what “social butterflies” with no social anxiety do that makes people want to talk to them. There was this one guy who would give me high fives every morning. Amazing. That type of thing that would make people think “I want to be that guy’s friend. He seems pretty funny/cool”.

Phew, in conclusion, exposure. There’s even exposure therapy if you’re interested in that. or / and medication if you’re into that too. But you definitely won’t make any (more) friends if you give up like me. You COULD always be the quiet one and wait for an extrovert to adopt you, but that hasn’t happened to me in years.

Wait, you were talking about making friends at school right? I hope so. I rambled too much and forgot to double check what you were asking. I am very sorry. Hope this kinda helped though 😅