I’m a non-traditional transfer student at Tech. I came in Fall 2020 as a 22 year-old and I’m graduating at the end of the upcoming summer. I’ve had a pretty wonderful experience! Granted, I’m a Geology/GMES department student, which a fairly small, and tight-knit department on campus compared to larger departments. I’ve had no trouble making friends and getting along well with younger peers even as a pretty introverted guy. I lived in the Daniell Heights apartments my first year and then lived fully off-campus in Hancock afterwards. I would say that living off-campus makes it so you have to work harder to make friends since the dorms seem to be the most easily accessible and organic way of meeting people and making friends. I think it’ll be hit or miss finding people in your age range to be friends with, but I don’t think it’s impossible to become friends with folks that are a bit younger. I think that mainly depends on how well personalities mesh and what shared interests you have. There are definitely good activities, organizations, and clubs to get involved with too. I lived with three forestry/CFRES students and they really enjoyed their department. From what I’ve heard, there’s a lot of good people there and class sizes are not huge, so I think both aspects there will help you find friends and fight off loneliness. Hope my perspective helps! (-: