Student Life
Making friends in college: commuter campuses, transfers, grad school, and everything after the club fair.
Student Life · Published on Sep 19, 2026
Grad school is the loneliest degree
The dorms, the big lectures, the whole cohort on one schedule. Gone, and nobody warns you. Why grad school isolates by design, and how to build the friends back in.
Student Life · Published on Aug 23, 2026
Making friends at a commuter school
No dorm floor, no dining hall, no hallway run-ins. What a commuter has instead is the gap between classes, and it is worth far more than it looks.
Student Life · Published on Aug 22, 2026
How to make friends in college when it doesn't 'just happen'
Five moves that build a college friend group on purpose, from the seat you keep to the weekly thing you go back to four times before judging it.
Student Life · Published on Aug 21, 2026
Freshman-year friendship anxiety: a September game plan
What to actually do in week one, why week three is the hardest stretch of the term, and why the friendships that last usually lock in around winter rather than move-in.
Student Life · Published on Aug 20, 2026
The transfer student's guide to finding your people
Everyone already has their people, and you showed up two years after the bonding ritual. Why that's structural, not personal, plus the transfer's real edge.
Student Life · Published on Aug 19, 2026
From study buddies to real friends
The class schedules every meeting, supplies every topic, and hands you every reason to text. When it ends, all of that goes with it, unless somebody moved first.
Student Life · Published on Aug 18, 2026
International students: building your first American friend group
A new country, a new school, a new social code, all at once, in a second language. Keep the community that rests you, and add one that stretches you.
Student Life · Published on Aug 16, 2026
How to actually meet people at UCR (beyond the club fair)
Sampling ten clubs in one afternoon is why nothing stuck. The fourth visit to one recurring room is where a UCR friend group actually starts.
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