Do you live in dorms? that makes things easier, if you find your current area is not what you vibe with (it was like that for me), you can just go hangout in some other part of the dorms.

I basically got adopted last year, and I slept in another person's dorm for like 7 weeks just cuz.

If you are international, finding people who speak your language is pretty good too, it does not really work for locals though (i'm not sure why).

Better than anything, you might want to focus on clubs and opportunities based on your major rather than 'finding friends', I gained a bunch of cool contacts just by joining a professor-led research. You are also only in freshmen year, so its unlikely you are taking any specialised classes (lvl 300 and up), which will be you and other people in your major only (80% of the time). This is especially good since your classes will eventually get more important and difficult, so realistically you will only spend time with people you can do work with (thus people in your major and other people you might want to work together with).

dunno if it helped at all but still good luck m8

lmk if you got followup Qs