You read the information leaflet that says something like "University clubs & societies", then choose a few, and join them

the unconsoled by ishiguro

I read a lot of Murakami when I was a lonely freshman in college. Lots of relatable alienation.

>>7753101
2 cheeky 4 me. Be useful

>>7753108
My advice to go out and meet people is more useful than any book you'll get here.

>>7753098
I didn't have many friends my firs semester.
I started kind of making some by the second semester. A lot the ones I met first semester didn't end up being my friends by the end.

I didn't have any really 'good friends' until my second year. It takes time to make a connection with someone. Just make an effort to put yourself out there. Go to social events. Ask people to hangout.

You'll get there.

Reading should not be a substitute for social fulfillment. If that is what you desire then you should seek it out.

>>7753102
yo i plug this book all the time but this is probably not the answer to OP's issue

great book though everyone should read it.

Fritz Zorn's "Mars" will completely tear you apart with a vision of what your life will become if you don't act. He describes being in college where he sat in the common area on the benches drinking disgusting coffee just waiting for someone to come talk to him. He was raised in a bourgeois household and never learned how to enjoy life, but neither how to critique life (i.e. become an intellectual) so he lived his life in the grey-area. You would like the book anon. In fact I think many 4channers would like it. I'm surprised it's not more popular here.

I made all my friends through my university judo club. I had no friends outside that circle and I wasn't particularly close with them either. I don't think any of them will end up being life long friends. I don't really care either. So my advice to you is to not worry about it to much.

Get off 4chan, seriously. Stay off the Internet as much as you can. I'm glad I didn't discover this place until after I graduated.

Donna Tartt's Secret History
John Williams' Stoner

There are people out there, though it can be really hard to find them. I didn't make any friends worth shit (only a few normalfags who barely liked me) until my fourth year, when by complete accident I met some unbelievably brilliant and thoughtful people seemingly out of nowhere. I didn't even meet them in class, either. I met them at some random college job.

Try to make socialising a routine thing so you can keep your options open, and always put yourself out there just in case, but don't be surprised if college remains a wasteland. Most of the people you're seeing are retards who are enjoying their last few years of feeling like the centre of the universe before they consign themselves to thankless work and invisible mediocrity. The constant white noise of shallow socialising is the death knell of their soul.

>>7753218
I don't like chads or bros either, but I don't delude myself that I'm on a higher plane of existence than they are. I may be smarter or more introspective but that doesn't make me better.

>>7753218
>Donna Tartt's Secret History
>yaoi that took the "start with the greeks" meme seriously

>>7753345
What do you mean by this? I liked that book.

>OP doesnt find a club to join
>Doesnt network
>GPA drops
>Doesnt land a job
>Moves back in when he graduates
>kills himself 15 years later, parents don't realise for 3 weeks because they went on a cruise
>cat eats lips and eyelids

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>No friends throughout college
>Decide to 'le go out and meet people' in 2nd year
>Join several clubs
>Too awkward to hold a full conversation
>Make no friends
>Literally havent said a word for weeks

>>7753707
say even less, isolate yourself. do it. become the nothingman. immerse yourself in a book, leaving everything else behind.

I thought I'd be the same when I went to University. Maybe picking up the odd accquaintence here and there and then leaving and never talking to them again. But simply being proactive and actually going up and talking to people has left me with many lasting relationships from my time there.

I'd say do the same. It may be difficult to just approach people and start up a conversation but do it anyway.

>>7753607

That guy (>>7753345)(you) is an idiot. Don't listen to him.

>>7753712
Wouldnt you just become known as a weirdo if you walked up to random people?

I can understand doing that at parties in the first week, but from what I know and have seen most people arent that interested in accomodating new random people after a while, especially awkward ones

Join the anime club!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFaNTr44lE&ab_channel=OtakuFailOfficial

>>7753194

Jesus Christ, this and video games replaced easily 50% of weekend time I could have spent with friends in college. And this anon >>7753101

Is also 100% correct. You never know what you'll be interested in later in life, OP, so take advantage of the variety college has to offer. Join the newspaper or work on the college radio or something. Pay attention to your studies, but also go to your professors' office hours. It's so important to make connections and network. Learn from my mistakers; I'm a classic case of the intelligent kid who never applied himself.

>>7753741

Also, I imagine you may feel lonely and isolated because 95% of the students attending your college seem to only be there to drink, fuck, and do drugs while you spare your mental energy for more existential thought processes including the dreaded "why am I here, what am I going to do with my life?" That, I think, is something a lot of people experience and you can either distract yourself from those worries like all the other chuckleheads (either through partying or retreating into digital escapism) or you can apply yourself to whatever it is you're doing and get ahead.

But, to answer your questions: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Stranger come to mind.

>>7753626
Yup. Currently on the fourth step

>>7753752

Also the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. And Hell, read the Crucible too because it was good.

>>7753098
If you have free time to foster worries, you're not working hard enough.

You pretty much have to make an effort to NOT socialize in college

Try to emancipate yourself intellectually.

Try not to attach yourself to the academia too much.

University put all bunch of people together that have nothing in common but age.

Read The Teenage Liberation Handbook. I'm currently doing it and I guess it's going to help me on the psychological side.