My inspiration for this blog primarily comes from eating at the residential dining halls here on campus at Cal State Long Beach. From day one, every time I walk into one of the dining halls one of the first things to catch my eye, right after the menu of course, is the number of people I see enjoying their meals alone. I understood more in the beginning of the year why the number of these people was so high, but now after finishing up week number four here at this school, the number has only slightly decreased. Day after day people attend breakfast, lunch, or dinner alone and choose to sit at a big empty table by themselves. Why? Why not take that opportunity to make a new friend? In the start of a new year, everyone is friendly and willing to meet new people, and I think that is a more better time than ever to walk up to someone and ask their name, major, what year they are, or where they're from, without risking it being awkward or weird.
I understand that this is not the easiest thing for some people and I also understand that not everyone is as open-minded to meeting new people as others. In this blog I will be writing about not other people's experiences in making friends, but my own and how the difficulty of this changes over time, as well as the effects of new friends on old friends. I will be detailing each event as I encounter it. I will also have a goal of meeting at least one new person a week to help show how the process changes as the year goes on.
I think my blog will spread a new light on both those who are too shy to meet new people, as well as those who never gave the person sitting alone a second thought. I hope it inspires everyone to have a new perspective on the importance of college social life and that you all find the results of my mini experiment interesting and entertaining :)
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