Published on 12, July, 2020
In September, I'm going to be starting my BA degree course in illustration and animation and would appreciate some advice in speaking and communicating with new and different people.
I have almost finished my foundation year and i haven't really spoken any one, or made any new friends. I really liked the course and have accomplished many things in terms of education, but not in communication. I realise now making new friends in university is a lot harder than IIwas ecpecting, especiall in a new environment. Next year I want to have real and full filling conversations with new people with out making as many mistakes as I have done this year. Agian advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I did better socially as a student in university than I did at any other time in my life, I think because I felt so at home there. I wasn't particularly trying to make friends, but since I was enjoying myself, I naturally got together with others who were doing the same subject I was. Instead of trying to make friends, perhaps just make sure you are happy doing what you are doing, and the social stuff will happen naturally.
I should add that being in a supergeek field of science really helped with the social stuff as well, because half of the people I spent time with were probably on the spectrum. I bet that there are a few of your fellow illustration and animation students on the spectrum as well.
I don't know about you, but I find people on the spectrum, and spectrum-adjacent people, far easier to get along with than others. There's no point in forcing yourself to socialise with people with whom you have nothing in common.