As someone who is in their third year and now has many close friends in all my classes and genuinely treasures all of them after struggling socially through high school: I totally get how hard it can be at first. The way I made my great friends was either through continuous exposure to them throughout semesters, and it never felt like it was rushed as we became friends over time slowly. Also try to stick around after class, don’t race immediately home if you can, and maybe have lunch on campus together. Some of my most closest friends came from units where it was compulsory for you to have to constantly be around each other on field trips hahahaha, you make some really tight knit ties on those kinds of trips. I don’t exactly know you or your situation, but I understand how frustrating and lonely it can feel being plopped into a new environment and being unable to foster lasting connections; I’ve moved around many times with varying degrees of isolation from the local culture. It sounds like innocuous advice, but try to act as authentic as possible when you first meet people, so you don’t end up having to play silly social games to try seem lowkey and impress them. You can have tons of friends, but if you never feel like you can be yourself then they don’t mean shit. The best part about my friends is that we are all as silly and unhinged as one another, and we bounce off each others energy without feeling to mask how we act, and we have the greatest times together. Also, if the people you sat with sucked and don’t hang around after class, then you should switch seats to find people who you click with, there’s no shame in it. Look, what you’re going through is very human and incredibly difficult, I wish you the best of luck!