No big self help lemmy so I had to ask it somewhere else. Alright, I’m an university student but:

  • I don’t like too much noise (no parties or bars).
  • I only go to university twice per week and it’s far from home.
  • I don’t like dating apps.
  • Social media imo stresses me out instead of helping me.
  • Can’t steal friends of friends: New city, I know no one here.
  • I suck abismally at sports. Also I don’t have a sporty profile.
  • Board/cardgame shops usually catter to people aged 30 and over as they can actually buy the games.

I’m just, like, out of ideas where to meet people aged 16-26. My best shot so far was in public transport but I’m usually too tired to bother. Been thinking of joining a DnD table or something just to meet people already rofl.

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    1 year ago

    Language courses. Check if your uni offers language classes for students and pick an obscure one (that is not English and possibly not Japanese unless you fancy Japanese culture). In my experience it’s a setting which forces conversations and sometimes surprisingly deep ones (how many of your classmates know what’s your favourite color? Well the ones from the language class do after an exercise of color words).

    Similarly maybe the uni or someone else in the town runs language cafe’s. Informal places where people who learn a language will show up to talk with natives.

    Look around if the uni has student clubs around an interest. My university had a ton of such “student circles” some of them were for people more than normally interested in the faculty’s discipline, some were about something completely different. They should allow people in based on interest, not affiliation and an active one is a great experience.

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      Language classes were, at least wherever I was taking them, much less demanding with regard to time, homework etc than normal uni classes.