College and Cliques

Well... cliques... don't exist in college...

Good news for everyone!  College students seem to have finally matured beyond the point of teaming up against each other.  I'm not saying that people don't form friend groups or that everyone likes each other, just that people don't ostracize each other.

It isn't really possible to have just one group of friends - you'll have friends from your dorm, friends from class, friends from clubs, and friends from the cafeteria and other miscellaneous places.  Pretty much all you have to do so that people won't hate you is either have snacks or have movies.  Having ostriches works to but those are harder to fit into your dorm room.

Just make sure that you don't "remake" yourself to the extent that you have to be someone else around each of your friends - that won't end well.  One of the girls on my hall did that and then she was busted after only two weeks when one of her friends from class heard her talking to us in the cafeteria and asked why she didn't have a southern accent anymore.  Oops!  Yeah, don't do that or you might actually get ostracized.  You know, if you alienate everyone, then it doesn't matter if people aren't teaming up against each other because they are all individually mad at you for being fake.  It's one of those "the pieces sum up to greater than the whole" things.