When I switched schools in the past, it did feel a little lonely at first but I managed to make new friends and forge meaningful bonds with them. But when I entered university, there were just too many people and I wasn’t able to find anyone whom I could truly connect with, and I felt pretty lonely. I’m in my third year of college now, and while I have a circle of friends whom I can laugh with and have lunch with, I still don’t have the deep connection I had with friends in my past (before uni). I’m the friend that helps them with assignments, but not the friend they call and meet up with in the holidays to hang out or something, or talk about feelings/exchange advice with. I try to take the initiative, but each of my friends have other friends they do these things with, and I end up feeling slightly excluded.
I don’t want to depend too much on my other friends (from outside uni) because I recognize that it is not healthy for me to try to live in the past or depend on a couple of people all the time for support/fun, and also because they have their own hectic lives at their universities and different schedules.

I’d really appreciate any advice about how to create more meaning in my existing college friendships, and to accept that even if I don’t have a so-called perfect circle of friends, I’m not alone and life can be fun the way it is.

Thank you.