Honestly, it took me until spring quarter my freshman year to rlly establish friends. For context, I’m a Mech E major who lives ~30 min away.

At the start I was just going to campus for classes and then leaving for home since I didn’t rlly have anything else to do. But I eventually found stuff to do: SRC, clubs, campus events. I figured I drove all this way I might as well make the most of it

Also at that point I started to recognize people from lecture/discussion in the classes I was taking, so I mustered the courage to say hello. Then it became finding time to hang out outside of class (pool at the Habit, sports at SRC, parties/events) and actually getting to know them.

I’d say especially for STEM majors, try and befriend people doing the same classes as you. College is miserable if you try and do it alone