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nullvenn

Did everything right and I still ended up alone

social life

This is to warn everyone that you can do everything right and put yourself out there and you can still end up alone at university.

Im 20F and in my 1st year of university, for the first 2 months i put myself out there, joined a society, messaged in groupchats asking if anyone wanted to come with me to events or clubs, messaged around the groupchats to see if anyone in my classes wanted to walk with me.

I still ended up with no friends, i have 2 that are baseline friendships where we speak in class and then never see eachother outside of that. You're probably there like "ask them to go out then?" and I have, multiple times yet they find excuses not to. I have 4 flatmates with 2 of them I talk to in the kitchen but it doesn't go beyond that. Everytime I ask someone to go out with me they either decline or cancel on the day. I've just tried to volunteer somewhere to try and distract myself but they didn't reply. The society I joined barely hosts events (I mean like 2 since september alone) so I cant make friends there. I've even recently tried to see other societies to join and was interested in a sports one before going to their taster session and realising it was all men, so I left. Im out of energy to ask people to go out only for it to get cancelled, or simply rejected. And I cant find any societies that fit my interests (most at my uni are cultural or racial socities, which I dont fit into either of) or are male dominated socities that I just can't see myself feeling 100% comfortable in.

So to put it lightly, this is a warning that even if you're there pretty much begging people to spend time with you and join a society, that you still may not make actual friends. I'm still trying to get used to the idea that I'll be completely alone with no support for the next 3 years of my life.

Posted Feb 11, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

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