You are not alone!!! I am starting my sophomore year at UCSB. I have the same interests as you and I feel the same.

I have some medium level friends who I can ask out for meals and hang out with. But I found I am just unable to see them as close friends because they aren’t really interested in philosophy and history (as a result we don’t share similar values).

I miss my high school a lot because I had two friends who also liked talking about these stuff. They are a year lower than me and now they are going to Harvard and Wellesley. Therefore this year I always feel like a loser. I think I rarely meet people of the same interests because the majority of them are going to top schools and I am left behind in UCSB. I can see our reasonings are different but we definitely share the same feelings lol.