Quote from: rc on August 24, 2015, 01:36:34 PM

made a friend in calc, woop

suck his cock

nah i met up with someone from grindr this morning for that

made a friend in calc, woop

Quote from: rc on August 24, 2015, 01:09:32 PM

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Quote from: rc on August 24, 2015, 10:10:54 AM

LOL MY FIRST CLASS IS AT 11:45 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA PLEB

shit I should probably leave

I like early classes, I have things to do and a woman to fuck 😂

Women can be fucked in the morning.

I'd rather be done with class and have all the time in the world.

The days I have class end at 2:15pm

Lol I'm just joking, I feel, I just prefer later classes

I though that wasn't actually class...

He's just an upsidedown triangle

Dang man you're already really old and you haven't done anything. It's really too late to do anything meaningful now sorry bud

lol I love this

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 03:03:12 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on August 23, 2015, 02:43:09 PM

My nigga

OT:

Clubs, intramural sports, and religious groups are great. Look online for your college's clubs and activities and I'm sure you'll find something. If you're not athletic enough for sports or just aren't interested, try things like casual running clubs, spin classes, yoga, or martial arts. I met a lot of great people in a jiu jitsu club during my time in college. Frats aren't a bad option either, just look for technical degree frats or just general non-bro frats.

If your roommate is really an issue, talk to the manager of your dorm and see about moving. They're usually pretty accommodating.

You're doing the same thing? Any advice?

My degree was in industrial engineering, which is engineering with a heavy focus on statistics. I don't really know how your program works, but getting a strong foundation is important because there are many different techniques for analysis and hypothesis testing, but they're all variations of a few different techniques you'll learn early on.

I mean, I've only taken one stats course (ap stats) so far, and I loved it. I genuinely understood everything that was taught to me, and I think it's all interesting as fuck. I think I have about as good a foundation as any other freshman could.

How severe is your social anxiety? Elaborate on how well you meet new people (do you have a hard time continuing conversation or do you find it impossible to make eye contact ect)

I have a hard time initiating conversation. I don't have an issue with eye contact and I don't stare at the ground when I walk or anything like that.

Quote from: DAS WAIFUMEISTER x2 on August 23, 2015, 01:50:58 PM

Join a club.
Become the socially awkward male MC of every SoL rom-com anime ever.

oh fuck that just reminded me my little university in rural oklahoma has a fucking anime club

like what the fuck

Lol, I got an email over the summer from the university about a minecraft club. I nearly shat my pants laughing.

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 01:40:06 PM

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Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 01:26:47 PM

Quote from: SoporificSlash on August 23, 2015, 01:25:39 PM

you're a comp sci major right?

Double majoring in statistics, yes.

i'd say make friends with people in your classes but in my experience most of the people in my comp sci classes were total sperglords and if that's true for you their social anxiety is probably even worse. But if you can spot a few people that look like normies just chat them up. Ask trivial shit like what was the homework assignment, shit like that. Honestly it is fucking tough and there's not a whole lot that anyone can say that will help it. Many of your classes whether they're your major or not will inevitably make you group up for a project and honestly that's where i've made a lot of my friends and acquaintances in college thus far. There's also an assload of clubs and organizations, find one that suits your interests and join it. That's what college is all about to me is finding people that actually share similar interests. Those people that didn't exist in high school. Once you find someone with similar interests and find some common ground its way easier to make friends with that person.

I'm kind of worried about the CS thing, too. I'm not ugly, but I'm no model either (and I'm insecure as shit about my looks), so the fact that I can confidently say that I was the most normal-looking, attractive person sitting in the CS section of the engineering convocation is worrisome.

I've actually made more friends outside of my major classes as opposed to within. Its taken me a year but I think I'm up to 4 friends in my comp sci class. Two of them are jocks (they're actually really smart though). However I think I've made about 10 different friends in my non major classes. For instance Comp 1 last year he made us set at group tables of 4 and I, inevitably because of the way we sat, became really good friends with those 3 people. This is also related to the fact that there simply isn't much group work in comp sci classes so you'll never be forced to talk to them, you have to take your own initiative.

The thing you'll encounter when sitting next to people is that there's usually someone that will initiate conversation with you and that to me was always easier because my biggest problem is being the one to make the initial connection with someone.

My first class is at noon tomorrow (calc 2 whoop), so I'll see how it goes.

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 01:37:04 PM

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Quote from: Icy Wind on August 23, 2015, 01:27:40 PM

It's going to sound extremely fucking cliche, but join a damn club.

I want to, but, as great as my school is, it sucks at advertising its clubs and organizations. I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for something to join.

Does your class have a Facebook page - as in, a "Class of 2019" page or whatever? If there is, a good chunk of the time clubs and events will advertise there.

Check out the SUB as well.

It does, but I deactivated my Facebook account a while ago. I guess reactivating it and joining the group is worth a try, thanks.

And what's SUB?

The Student Union Building (Where I'm from, we just say SUB).

It's kind of the center of a university - a lot of them have food courts or the bookstore there, along with where people advertise clubs and such.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we have one, but I haven't been since orientation. It has a food court and bookstore, but not much else for students to do. If clubs are advertised there, I don't know where.

Just watch for posters going up on the walls, or look for a bulletin board. Guarantee they'll be there

Alright, thanks, I will. Sucks that I'll feel this way for a while, though.

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 01:32:25 PM

Quote from: Icy Wind on August 23, 2015, 01:30:40 PM

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 01:29:30 PM

Quote from: Icy Wind on August 23, 2015, 01:27:40 PM

It's going to sound extremely fucking cliche, but join a damn club.

I want to, but, as great as my school is, it sucks at advertising its clubs and organizations. I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for something to join.

Does your class have a Facebook page - as in, a "Class of 2019" page or whatever? If there is, a good chunk of the time clubs and events will advertise there.

Check out the SUB as well.

It does, but I deactivated my Facebook account a while ago. I guess reactivating it and joining the group is worth a try, thanks.

And what's SUB?

The Student Union Building (Where I'm from, we just say SUB).

It's kind of the center of a university - a lot of them have food courts or the bookstore there, along with where people advertise clubs and such.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we have one, but I haven't been since orientation. It has a food court and bookstore, but not much else for students to do. If clubs are advertised there, I don't know where.

It's going to sound extremely fucking cliche, but join a damn club.

I want to, but, as great as my school is, it sucks at advertising its clubs and organizations. I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for something to join.

Posting in serious because my reputation on here doesn't exactly inspire confidence that I'll get serious replies elsewhere.

I have a very, very hard time talking to people that I don't know when I'm not accompanied by someone I do know, and because of that, I have a hard time making new friends without existing ones around to help. Recently, I was finally able to come out of my shell, and this last summer has been the best time of my life because of it. I had dozens of friends, and like 8 close ones, and it was a great fucking experience. It took four years of high school (and a lot of weed) for me to get to a point where I felt truly and confidently happy.

But now I'm losing it. I moved into my dorm on Thursday, and my roommate ended up being a senior. He's a French exchange student with a thick accent and a broken grasp of English. He's a nice guy, he's always polite and friendly, but I can tell that he has no interest in being anything than an acquaintance (and I don't blame him; I doubt I'll want to be friends with a freshman during my senior year either). I probably shouldn't have, but I was betting on getting a decent roommate who would open doors to more friendships, but that just isn't happening. The closest friend (in proximity) to me is over two hours away, and my family is about four. I feel utterly isolated and alone, and it's crushing.

These past few days have been the hardest in my life. My roommate spends a lot of time out of the dorm (and he's stayed out very late every night so far), thankfully, so he hasn't seen me sob for the half an hour I have been every night. I half expected this to happen, so I bummed some clonazepam off of my sister before I left, and I've been taking a tab every night to calm me down and force me to sleep. It's that bad.

I don't know what to do. My parents have paid a LOT of money for me to be here, and while my mom knows that I'm having a crushingly hard time, but she says I need to stick out the semester, at least. My friends, all at other universities, are finding their ways. I've been talking to them, and it seems like their success has all stemmed from having decent roommates. I'm thinking about switching dorms, but I can't do that until after the class drop/add period ends, which is in like two weeks.

I can't continue like this. I'm gonna lose it, and I can see myself doing something I really don't want to do if this continues. I need your guys' advice. What can I do to make friends? How can I work on my social anxiety, and my people skills? How can I make myself feel better?

Quote from: rc on August 23, 2015, 07:26:14 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 22, 2015, 10:03:48 PM

someone explain to me the difference

a connection to a website with https is encrypted with ssl, and the identity of the server is verifiable, meaning that it's nearly impossible for a man in the middle attack to occur. (That's when an attacker intercepts your connection to the website to either sniff data like passwords or change the look of the website all together to get you to do something you shoudlnt).

edit. well I shouldn't say encrypted with ssl because it isn't actually a cipher itself and there's a bunch of different ways to encrypt traffic securely, but that's the gist of it

You're almost completely right. Bluehost charges for use of https on each domain name (I think). If we bought that feature, we could use it, but unless we also paid for someone to sign a certificate for us, that warning would pop up telling you the site was using an unsigned and unmonitored secure connection.

Quote from: Cheat on August 22, 2015, 04:52:17 PM

That costs extra, so...

Not likely.

what is it to get a certificate signed? Like 20 dollars? Don't be a fucking jew