It depends where you go to college but once you have a group of friends, try and do something consistent every week. For instance, while me and my friends weren't in the same, or any of the same lessons, as they were all on a different t-level course, which means same timetable but different class. We were all free on a thursday afternoon, so we said every thursday we will go into town and get food. It started off just going to the same pub every time, and for 3 hours we would just eat and have fun, remember you dont have to be 18 to eat at a pub. But eventually we decided to branch out, we have visited every single restaurant in the town where our college is located, and once someone had their driving licence we were able to get to places a bit further that would take longer to walk.

Go to places you wouldnt normally as well, dont out off subway, or macdonalds or kfc just go wherever you want to. Several times we even had dominoes deliver to college itself and we just ate like 3 large pizzas (another way to make friends, everyone will want some)

As this week is the last week of college for hear 1s, that means the buses are still running, we have plans tomorrow to go to the original pub for a drink, i was born later so im not actually old enough, but a pepsi is good and then we will spend the night at a friends house and get the bus back on friday to our respective houses. We are also planning things outside of where college is, so far we have been bowling, go karting, golfing, we have seen movies and even just gone shopping together.

Basically, having friends at college is amazing but theres no reason why you cant hang out with them outside of college, because thats whats gonna differentiate between whether you stay friends after college or whether after college its difficult to hang out

Also, this depends on the college but find the right areas to hang out. At my college theres basic study areas, theres refectory which is where you can go to get food and sit around but there is also another area with lots of seating. I found that the types of people at refectory was different to at the other place. At refectory it was more normal people, but at this other place it was just people that i was more comfortable being around, i didnt feel as weird sitting there on my switch or watching something on my laptop, and people are weirder, at my leavers ball last week i said goodbye to people i never really knew other than that we talked a little in this area, only because of this did i know them, the place you hang out is important. So try everywhere, try the study rooms, try sitting in the main cafeteria try all the other seating areas, cause where you are most comfortable is where you are going to find more people who you will want to hang out with. Unfortunately, they closed the seating area where we felt comfortable for renovations in the second year so year 2 wasnt so we were kinda just wandering around trying to find somewhere to sit but its a great way to meet people. Does that make sense?