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Actionable Solutions:
- Find a hobby or Club through the university for some interest. You don't even need to be incredibly interested in the topic or sport. Get yourself out of the house to do something new/learning a skill, and you'll make friends as you go. In my case, I joined something like 20 clubs/teams to try them out, but only stuck through and stayed with the 3 that I actually enjoyed.
- (these ones mainly for Belfast dwellers) I never went to QUB/UU, but when I came home for the summer I usually went to Dragonslayers just to have something to do. I joined one of the DnD tables and hung out there. Also you could try volunteering at Qcon / Belfast Pride / another city event. The ones that I did were also good and very social. You can make a lot of friends outside your usual circles that way.
- Make casual plans with your uni acquaintances. Things like pub quizes /sip and sketches etc. where the focus is on the task and not drinking. (Or it can be, and you simply don't drink.)
tl;dr if you're not finding friendships inside your comfort zone, you're going to need to get outside of it.
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