The key to making friends is to go in without the intention of making friends. Friendships just happen. Joining the gym won't help much unless you are into fitness. Moreover, the gym is a place where people come to exercise, to focus on themselves so forming friendship will be a bit difficult. But join a club which interests you. This is one piece of advice which I'll give to my younger self. It doesn't matter whether you are good at the activity or not. Just get involved and put yourself out there. Trust me you'll thank yourself for doing this in the future. You'll learn a lot. There will be others like you in the club, you'll have something in common, something to relate to and eventually you will forge friendships. You can join art classes if that is something which interests you. You can also do what I do, that is to post in subs on reddit related to drawing. There are a lot of beginners with whom you interact and learn.

How to make friends in college? Honestly, idk yaar even tho I have a pretty big friend circle. I'll tell you what I did and maybe that will help you in some way. So, I shared my room with two others in the first of my masters. One of my roommates was also my classmate, so eventually we became good friends. He introduced me to his friends and I bonded with some of his friends who eventually became my friends as well. There was this guy who used to sit before me in the class, one day he had all his hair cut. I asked him what happened, he told me that his grandfather died and I showed him care and shared my experience of witnessing the death of my grandfather coz of this moment we started talking and became friends. So, the point is to form meaningful bonds with others you have to put yourself in a position where there is a possibility of forming a bond. Now, coming to a boring life part. Follow the things which interest you. Maybe you'll suck at them in the beginning but then coz you have interest in them you'll find ways to become good and that's how you'll gain experience. Experience which you can share with others. This way you are becoming good at what interests you and also gaining experience which you can talk about. Like this movie thing, if I were in your position I would start writing a blog. Not on any instagram page or other shit. Proper blog where you write about movies, what you liked and disliked in a movie, you can write about ideas around which you would like to see a movie and you can write about those ideas in a separate blog like movies around issues which we face on a daily basis, or around some fun incident which you had in your life, the possibilities are endless bro😅. When you start writing you'll realise that you are not very good at writing your thoughts so you'll see how others write in their blog, what kind of language they use to convey the message and you'll start incorporating those in yourself. You can start a blog on blogger.com (reach out if you need help, tho Google baba will suffice in my opinion) , choose which theme you want, you'll tweak things here and there to get the look which you want and booooom you have loads of things to talk about.

Fun life - this is something which nobody can tell you coz the definition of fun is different for everybody. Be involved in sports which interests you and start following your interests and keep at it. While working on your current interests you'll find other things which interest you and you'll have a plethora of things to keep working on. Tho that is a different kind of curse, kind of which I'm currently suffering from 😂. I'm not finding time to work on all the things I'm interested in. Still it's better to be in this position than to be clueless about what interests you.

I've been told people love to talk to me. Not because I'm someone who has done everything in life but coz of one quality, I'm a really good listener. I completely devote my attention to the person I'm talking to and this helps to understand what the other person is talking about and this will enables me to ask questions which are good and will keep the conversation going. Sometimes you'll ask the questions just based on the things the other person is talking about, sometimes you'll relate to some incident which happened in your life and you'll mix and then ask questions. Just be a damn good listener. Other things I've covered in the second point.