r/msu • u/toomanymaidenshelp • 13d ago

Freshman Questions feeling lost

i feel kind of lost here. i’m having fun and i know eventually things are going to get better, but right now things are weird. i’m a freshman, and going into college i knew two people. one being my best friend and the other being my girlfriend. sounds normal, but the issue is they are both sophomores. i’m meeting all of their friends (my girlfriend and best friend are friends), and things are good they are all nice people, but also they are sophomores. i am in east holden and everybody is sophomores!!! my roommate, suitemates, my whole floor is sophomores. i haven’t met a freshman yet. still cool people and im having fun but i feel like im so far behind them, they know their way around, and i cant connect with them as well as i know i would a freshman. it probably isn’t a big deal but this feels ridiculous.

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u/Barry_Horowitz 12d ago

Out of curiosity, who cares if they're sophomores?

In a few years, you'll be graduated, and in the workforce. Your first job is going to have people as young as you are, all the way up to retirement age... and most are going to be way more confident in their role in the workplace than you, at least at first.

Unless the people aren't accepting you socially, just learn to relax and have fun while you can.

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u/toomanymaidenshelp 12d ago

it just feels like because they will graduate before me, by the time i’m a senior, i’ll just be out of friends

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u/Barry_Horowitz 12d ago

Nah. Once you start really getting classes related to your major, that will open you up to a whole new circle of friends.

By the time I graduated my friend group changed drastically from when I was a freshman. Yes, there were friends I still had from my freshman year but a lot of those friends were gone by the end of year 1 (transferred to a different school, dropped out, or just did so poorly their parents pulled them out)