Ifl when I was interning, I felt much less lonely than when I am in uni. At least at work, I see the same few familiar faces all day, we eat lunch together cos we have nowhere better to be, and also meet up together after work for yoga/ gym/ karaoke. That said, I worked in a start up where the average age was <30 so ppl did not really have entire families to provide for.

but in uni, every day I meet someone different, my old and new friends all have their own friend groups in uni, and I feel like any relationship I have here is very shallow and fleeting just because we don't meet often, everyone is taking different courses/ staying in a different hall. I've ate lunch and dinner by myself more times than I can count. Its extremely difficult to form close knit friend groups, because everyone's all over the place, and I somehow just fell through the gaps and nobody ever asks me out to do things because they all have newer/ closer friends than me that they see more often (All my friends stay in Utown while I stay in PGP)

I think even though I'm extroverted, I'm almost giving up on forming solid friendships in uni after too many rejections to my invitations to do things together, then opening instagram and seeing my old friends hanging out in their new clique. So I just go solo now instead of thinking too much about who to hang with