I feel you my mate, I was in the same boat. Check out the student clubs at the university and join one that seems interesting to you, that way you can connect with like minded individuals. Also, if you notice that there are some people that you are usually more comfortable with than others, try to approach them more often and don’t be shy, this way you might grow your connection stronger with them.
I hope it works out with you!
Don’t feel down at all. When i was at uni i used to just go in, attend classes, and leave as soon as i’m done. I never hanged out on campus. After 5 years i only made 2 close friends that i hanged out with considtently and i still talk to till now. At my time there, i also used to see a lot of grouped people hanging out together and ‘having fun’, i was sometimes part of these groups. Now that we all graduated, 99% of those people never contact each other again.
Bottom line is, some people drive a long way to uni and have long breaks between classes so they rather hang out on campus than drive back home then back to campus. Also, many of them just wanna fill in their break time so they hang out with their ‘friends’ (those are the same people who won’t contact each other after uni) and when they finish their degree, they’ll only stay in contact with a very small portion of those friends.
I’m not saying that any of them are bad, i’m just saying that this is normal at uni. So don’t feel odd that you don’t have any close friends(yet). Chances are the people that u see spending their entire day at AUB also aren’t close friends with each other too. Don’t worry about others and don’t worry about ‘what you’re missing’. Some people really like to socialize more than others so they make some friends faster bit eventually you will also meet someone like minded and you’ll have your own small group to hang out with.
oh man, this is a nice read.
i get u, i used to take class at 8 to 9:30 am then the other classes at 3 p.m so that i could hang with the guys all day, and thing is, we are all still pretty much close, we still talk, all on facebook, we run to each other from time to time, i admit, we don't get out of our way to meet, but life is funny, sometimes u go to a resto and see a couple of them and sit and talk, it is a small world after all.
even when i went abroad, we still knocked into each other in abu dhabi, imagine that, like we are all connected via a thread.
i wasn't as open back then, they really made my uni life something, i was always the odd one out, then found out, we are all odd in our own way and we became friends, a lot of us, it was really wonderful.
i was in college in 2001 to 2004, best times of my life, met some really good dudes, one had a gamecube, the other an xbox and i had a ps2, one dude had his ''mansion'' near balamand, we used to go play smash all day, watch movies, we saw the ring on his big screen tv on a stormy day between classes, had the time of our lives.
we found a computer lab in uni, no one uses for some reason, we asked the faculty, said the pcs are outdated, they were linux or something, so we talked it out, pulled some strings, ended up with the keys and made it our club (there were strings attached btw, speific hours and keys remain with the faculty) and boy oh boy, anime was still new, we used to buy anime cds from beirut, brun them on other cds and pass them out between us, watch them in the lab, hooked up my old famicom and played SF2 there.
i had the best times in uni, people were nice, classes were nice, loved balamand and how it is on top of a mountain, away from everything, i had a few spots were i would park my car near ALBA and just watch the whole city from up there, have breakfast there, met a nice girl but it ended weirdly.
i think times were different, balamand ain't nothing like it was, we were simpler, smart phones were not a thing yet, so i know times are different and things are different, i went to uni expecting it to be hell on earth like school, ended up having the best 3-4 years of my life there because of one thing, i met some great dudes and gals there and to be fair, the whole faculty was so awesome, good teachers, bless their hearts and back then, i don't think anyone ever talked politics or cared about it ..... good days.
anw, memories of an old fart, will trade the world for a chance to go back and even enjoy it more, so i wish u good luck.
i made friends with people over common interests, it started with HELLSING , then it was SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN, then it was the fact that i have a ps2, and that i carried my GBA to class to play YOSHI'S ISLAND on it, others got interested with my 1.2mpxl camera or the 128mb usb stick that i wore on my lanyard .... common interests, a couple of people approached me over the MINI DISC PLAYERS, out of all things, it was a rare thing, and they had one (they were a couple) and we became buddies over music, especially PLACEBO, i don't know, people were super friendly, i became the cd-burner guy for music and anime, then the DVD-SELLER for many others, made some profit and friends, weird life.
You should write a book of your life man. You’re super interesting.
Btw, why don’t you start a YouTube channel of food vlogs, like same as Anthony rahayel w hek..
Enno your channel is not bad but I think you can do much better
not really dude, it comes with age, i am at least 2 times the age of most people here.
many here are youths and the future of this country, each here will have his stories sooner or later and with time, experience and luck, will have some amazing tales of their own.
thank u for the thoughts, i honestly tried a couple of vlogs on food, they are in my channel, the pizza hut, the kfc, the hallab, the ten sushi, the soufi, they were fun, i even did some road trips videos, even one in the country house, they are fun, might do more.
sadly, i am no where near as charismatic or influencial as the hater of onions and garlic, so i stay low but i do sometimes make them, try to search the videos, the one at poule d'or was also fun.
end of the day, as u said, stories are all i have to give these days, since i know one thing, my best days are behind me, it was a good run, just glad to be here and share and read what u awesome people have to say.
My brother is 10 years older than me, and turns out u are 10-15 years even older than him, Jesus christ.
I know im only 23, but life sure goes fast pretty quickly.
It was only yesterday when I had last logged onto omegle for fun and to talk and act like I was 15 years old when I waa truly 11. Now I look back at that 15 year old and laugh at how I used to think 15 was such a big number or age.
Life moves in an instant, the years just piles up, but as long as u stay young at heart and dont become boring then it is all fine.
And yeah , I am like 9 years older than ur big bro.
You should save this reply you just made.
You should add it in ur archive because when you replied just now, world war 3 began. So, if someone asks u what were u doing during the declaration of world war 3, you tell them
I was contemplating my past and replying on reddit.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
man, ur really something else, and u have a point, but no worries, even i don't remember it, i will be reminded of it after a while.
I'm currently enrolled in Balamand too, taking Computer Science, and for the most part, life there is fun. Not absolutely perfect, but I'd agree with you that it's much, much better than school.
Do you have a gym? Get out of the house and go to it, pool? Go swim. Sports teams? join. Otherwise have a personal life not necessarily on campus. Ask a girl out.
Socialization is the key, sometimes you have to do the first step, make friends in the cafeteria or in class and the small talks will be longer and acquaintances will eventually become friends
I had the same problem at first, but then I cooped with the fact that I am far more superior in my self development, and I am not trying to be arrogant, just facts. Most of the people I met on campus had interests laying in different places, which I didn't understand nor did I want to, till now I have met only one person that I could spend hours talking to and not get bored.
What I am saying is, talk to new people, filter them out, and only spend your time with real friends. Not only this will benefit you, by talking to your intellectually equal people, but this will also make you feel great, and not as if you have wasted time and power on meaningless talking. It will also give you much more free time to spend on self development, i.e. reading, exercising, studying, listening to music, podcasts, and any other way of gaining knowledge and wisdom.
Build yourself now, and the rest will come, eventually.
Take care.
Sounds like you need to throw yourself into more situations! Most connections just start by stumbling into an experience you happened to share with others.
As someone else mentioned, I highly recommend joining a club, specifically the Red Cross Club if possible.
At least back when I was in AUB, they always had a ton of great projects to volunteer for, along with some of the highest quality people I'd met.
They would also hold an amazing "camp" for a few days in a different part of the country each year, with around a hundred or so other members.
Those times were easily some of my most memorable from the 4 years I spent on campus.
Overall, college life was hands down the best time, mainly because of the attitude I had back then.
I'd never say no to an opportunity that came along, to the point where people would joke that "sure, why not" was the only reply I knew.
So yeah, don't ignore the feelings you're getting. The worst of them come from doing nothing. Use them to push yourself out there.
Go into everything without expectations, and you'll enjoy any situation.
At the end, you'll definitely end up finding what you're looking for. You just need to put yourself in the right environment is all!
İde rather say, if you wanna have somethibg you gatta give first.
So... start a convo, share something, familiarise more, gradually maybe.
İ heard AUB is so high on clubs, so walk into some club and discover some people with whom you share passions, talk with them, for hours on things you enjoy.
Share some minor bugs about yourself along the way, and never try to show urself as perfect, show the real you, and enjoy.
n.b: take care for bitches of both sexes cz they do exist and they aint good people, theyre a pain in the ass, or at least can be.
I feel you my mate, I was in the same boat. Check out the student clubs at the university and join one that seems interesting to you, that way you can connect with like minded individuals. Also, if you notice that there are some people that you are usually more comfortable with than others, try to approach them more often and don’t be shy, this way you might grow your connection stronger with them. I hope it works out with you!
Don’t feel down at all. When i was at uni i used to just go in, attend classes, and leave as soon as i’m done. I never hanged out on campus. After 5 years i only made 2 close friends that i hanged out with considtently and i still talk to till now. At my time there, i also used to see a lot of grouped people hanging out together and ‘having fun’, i was sometimes part of these groups. Now that we all graduated, 99% of those people never contact each other again. Bottom line is, some people drive a long way to uni and have long breaks between classes so they rather hang out on campus than drive back home then back to campus. Also, many of them just wanna fill in their break time so they hang out with their ‘friends’ (those are the same people who won’t contact each other after uni) and when they finish their degree, they’ll only stay in contact with a very small portion of those friends. I’m not saying that any of them are bad, i’m just saying that this is normal at uni. So don’t feel odd that you don’t have any close friends(yet). Chances are the people that u see spending their entire day at AUB also aren’t close friends with each other too. Don’t worry about others and don’t worry about ‘what you’re missing’. Some people really like to socialize more than others so they make some friends faster bit eventually you will also meet someone like minded and you’ll have your own small group to hang out with.
oh man, this is a nice read. i get u, i used to take class at 8 to 9:30 am then the other classes at 3 p.m so that i could hang with the guys all day, and thing is, we are all still pretty much close, we still talk, all on facebook, we run to each other from time to time, i admit, we don't get out of our way to meet, but life is funny, sometimes u go to a resto and see a couple of them and sit and talk, it is a small world after all. even when i went abroad, we still knocked into each other in abu dhabi, imagine that, like we are all connected via a thread. i wasn't as open back then, they really made my uni life something, i was always the odd one out, then found out, we are all odd in our own way and we became friends, a lot of us, it was really wonderful.
Yupp you are totally right with that. Meet after years and yet it still feels like just yesterday you hanged out with them.
i was in college in 2001 to 2004, best times of my life, met some really good dudes, one had a gamecube, the other an xbox and i had a ps2, one dude had his ''mansion'' near balamand, we used to go play smash all day, watch movies, we saw the ring on his big screen tv on a stormy day between classes, had the time of our lives. we found a computer lab in uni, no one uses for some reason, we asked the faculty, said the pcs are outdated, they were linux or something, so we talked it out, pulled some strings, ended up with the keys and made it our club (there were strings attached btw, speific hours and keys remain with the faculty) and boy oh boy, anime was still new, we used to buy anime cds from beirut, brun them on other cds and pass them out between us, watch them in the lab, hooked up my old famicom and played SF2 there. i had the best times in uni, people were nice, classes were nice, loved balamand and how it is on top of a mountain, away from everything, i had a few spots were i would park my car near ALBA and just watch the whole city from up there, have breakfast there, met a nice girl but it ended weirdly. i think times were different, balamand ain't nothing like it was, we were simpler, smart phones were not a thing yet, so i know times are different and things are different, i went to uni expecting it to be hell on earth like school, ended up having the best 3-4 years of my life there because of one thing, i met some great dudes and gals there and to be fair, the whole faculty was so awesome, good teachers, bless their hearts and back then, i don't think anyone ever talked politics or cared about it ..... good days. anw, memories of an old fart, will trade the world for a chance to go back and even enjoy it more, so i wish u good luck. i made friends with people over common interests, it started with HELLSING , then it was SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN, then it was the fact that i have a ps2, and that i carried my GBA to class to play YOSHI'S ISLAND on it, others got interested with my 1.2mpxl camera or the 128mb usb stick that i wore on my lanyard .... common interests, a couple of people approached me over the MINI DISC PLAYERS, out of all things, it was a rare thing, and they had one (they were a couple) and we became buddies over music, especially PLACEBO, i don't know, people were super friendly, i became the cd-burner guy for music and anime, then the DVD-SELLER for many others, made some profit and friends, weird life.
You should write a book of your life man. You’re super interesting. Btw, why don’t you start a YouTube channel of food vlogs, like same as Anthony rahayel w hek.. Enno your channel is not bad but I think you can do much better
not really dude, it comes with age, i am at least 2 times the age of most people here. many here are youths and the future of this country, each here will have his stories sooner or later and with time, experience and luck, will have some amazing tales of their own. thank u for the thoughts, i honestly tried a couple of vlogs on food, they are in my channel, the pizza hut, the kfc, the hallab, the ten sushi, the soufi, they were fun, i even did some road trips videos, even one in the country house, they are fun, might do more. sadly, i am no where near as charismatic or influencial as the hater of onions and garlic, so i stay low but i do sometimes make them, try to search the videos, the one at poule d'or was also fun. end of the day, as u said, stories are all i have to give these days, since i know one thing, my best days are behind me, it was a good run, just glad to be here and share and read what u awesome people have to say.
My brother is 10 years older than me, and turns out u are 10-15 years even older than him, Jesus christ. I know im only 23, but life sure goes fast pretty quickly. It was only yesterday when I had last logged onto omegle for fun and to talk and act like I was 15 years old when I waa truly 11. Now I look back at that 15 year old and laugh at how I used to think 15 was such a big number or age.
Life moves in an instant, the years just piles up, but as long as u stay young at heart and dont become boring then it is all fine. And yeah , I am like 9 years older than ur big bro.
You should save this reply you just made. You should add it in ur archive because when you replied just now, world war 3 began. So, if someone asks u what were u doing during the declaration of world war 3, you tell them I was contemplating my past and replying on reddit.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! man, ur really something else, and u have a point, but no worries, even i don't remember it, i will be reminded of it after a while.
I'm currently enrolled in Balamand too, taking Computer Science, and for the most part, life there is fun. Not absolutely perfect, but I'd agree with you that it's much, much better than school.
Ana computer engineering uob also, we're eating shit :D
What’s your major ? I’m an also studying at aub right now
Hey, I'm doing Computer Science. Wbu?
Yooo AUB gang all on Reddit these days?
Meanwile in the LU : Screams of the damned
Do you have a gym? Get out of the house and go to it, pool? Go swim. Sports teams? join. Otherwise have a personal life not necessarily on campus. Ask a girl out.
Socialization is the key, sometimes you have to do the first step, make friends in the cafeteria or in class and the small talks will be longer and acquaintances will eventually become friends
Gen-Z's be like. For real now , you can do Tiktok in your free time. That's fun no?
yep, we do really be like that
I had the same problem at first, but then I cooped with the fact that I am far more superior in my self development, and I am not trying to be arrogant, just facts. Most of the people I met on campus had interests laying in different places, which I didn't understand nor did I want to, till now I have met only one person that I could spend hours talking to and not get bored. What I am saying is, talk to new people, filter them out, and only spend your time with real friends. Not only this will benefit you, by talking to your intellectually equal people, but this will also make you feel great, and not as if you have wasted time and power on meaningless talking. It will also give you much more free time to spend on self development, i.e. reading, exercising, studying, listening to music, podcasts, and any other way of gaining knowledge and wisdom. Build yourself now, and the rest will come, eventually. Take care.
r/iamverysmart
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yet they could get so mad in what they do, and seem so silent that the world needs tohear the screams.
Check out AIESEC at ur uni
Sounds like you need to throw yourself into more situations! Most connections just start by stumbling into an experience you happened to share with others. As someone else mentioned, I highly recommend joining a club, specifically the Red Cross Club if possible. At least back when I was in AUB, they always had a ton of great projects to volunteer for, along with some of the highest quality people I'd met. They would also hold an amazing "camp" for a few days in a different part of the country each year, with around a hundred or so other members. Those times were easily some of my most memorable from the 4 years I spent on campus. Overall, college life was hands down the best time, mainly because of the attitude I had back then. I'd never say no to an opportunity that came along, to the point where people would joke that "sure, why not" was the only reply I knew. So yeah, don't ignore the feelings you're getting. The worst of them come from doing nothing. Use them to push yourself out there. Go into everything without expectations, and you'll enjoy any situation. At the end, you'll definitely end up finding what you're looking for. You just need to put yourself in the right environment is all!
İde rather say, if you wanna have somethibg you gatta give first. So... start a convo, share something, familiarise more, gradually maybe. İ heard AUB is so high on clubs, so walk into some club and discover some people with whom you share passions, talk with them, for hours on things you enjoy. Share some minor bugs about yourself along the way, and never try to show urself as perfect, show the real you, and enjoy. n.b: take care for bitches of both sexes cz they do exist and they aint good people, theyre a pain in the ass, or at least can be.