Lee Me 'Lone

By: Georgia Trevor

 

 

Keeping to yourself when around a huge crowd, listening to music when walking or locked in your room while it oozes out your speakers, your phone is glued to your hand because you actually have a cool personality if given the opportunity to showcase it… when you feel like it. You laugh at your own jokes in your head and insiders. If you can relate to any of these things, you, my friend, are a loner! Don’t be ashamed, though, because I too am a loner. NOW, be ashamed! (Lol)

In all seriousness, living the loner life can be, well, lonely. It’s also a hard comfortabilty to grow out of. So what do you do when you’re a loner but also a college student wanting to live the college experience? Let me help you out with a Survival Guide for such a contradicting situation, we’ll call it, ‘G’s Social Loner Guidelines. Yeah that sounds about right!

 Rule #1 Classmates: Best way to be social and not feel out of your comfort zone is by making friends within your classes. Odds are, you guys can work together on assignments and may even have the same major/interests.

 Rule #2 School Functions: Go to events and activities the school holds. The worst-case scenario is making a new friend with a FACULTY MEMBER!

(Don’t go out like that, bro!)

 Rule #3 Fix Yo Face: If you’re like me, you walk around with the Kanye face cause well, Yeezy taught me! Try looking approachable. No one wants to befriend the kid with the “I hate life” face.

 Rule #4 Club Life: Join a club. This one’s pretty self-explanatory. DO what you find interest in or are curious about and you’re guaranteed to make friends interested in things just like you.

 Rule #5 Simmer Dowwwn: Don’t try too hard! No one wants to be associated with the weird kid who joins in on conversation they weren’t invited in or welcomes a stranger who randomly sits with them and their group of friends at the lunch table in the café! Find a common interest with them, push comes to shove, give a compliment and go from there. BUT DON’T BE AWKWARD. (Something a lot of loners have a problem with. No shame, no shade. I’m extremely weird/awkward.)

 I know being a loner can be awfully boring but the G’s Social Loner Guidelines guide has never steered me wrong. Sure I’m a loner, but it’s by choice. I’m able to be social when it’s convenient as well though. Hopefully you take my guide and put it into effect too. Make memories before it’s too late. Make your college experience something to boast about when you’re 80!