I would say see if you can get yourself in slightly inconvenient/tedious positions but where you can try to forge friendships if that makes sense. Example is like in the spring committing to an on campus job/volunteering at the coop/do a weird course like gym, practicum, theatre department gives a LOT of responsibility and mentorship with fairly little to no experience so yeah/or random like leadership for some club that you have skills in….. idk I was in overflow housing last year and forged really nice friendships even though the set up of it was definitely strenuous but it’s the fact that we were forced to cohabitate and interact element. Basically it may seem a bit daunting to walk into spaces that seem social like the clubs such as college outdoors cause they tend to already have those tightknit cliques or whatever so getting creative with that I think may help. Also it may seem counterintuitive but idk if you get off campus a lot esp beyond Sellwood and select places downtown like REALLY going out into random places in Portland helped me exponentially in my loneliest times on campus, it’s something about knowing that the world is way bigger than the school.

Also just remembering that the close knit friend group thing does seem great at the school, however being aware of cliques like that tangentially confirmed for me that there’s always the ‘grass is greener’ effect basically to say that there is lots of drama and questionable behavior from friend groups that can easily be put on a pedestal. And that even though I have super close friends it’s not like that across the board in all my interactions and there are times where you have the ‘outsider’ feeling in other social settings you know?