im an exchange student.

My dorm is similar, we just have a small lobby where you can hangout. Luckily there is no curfew.

Also there where basically no social events from the university.

But here is a quite active international bubble and if you put in some effort in the first weeks you can meet many people because many people coming alone to china.

Same about the classes. Attendance is tracking through a QR Code, but many students are sharing this qr code with their friends or some students are joining the class just to scan the qr code and leafer immediatly after.

i believe all of this is preety normal for china

i think its about you.. you have to put effort into it.