just finished 1st half of ms1 and passed with no problem at all. however, adjusting to the new social scene has been the biggest challenge for me so far. back in college i lived on campus where everything was no more than 10 minute walk away; all my friends live near each other on the same floor or residential area and i had no problem stay socialized. Now, I live a decent distance off campus by myself with my parents to save money and none of my classmates live near me. on top of that i study best by myself so i dont have a set study group like some of my classmates... I tried out intramural n interest groups but so far they dont seem to help that much
now after 4 month of school I feel like I am not as "socially connected" as the rest of the medstudents. while I do have "medschool friends", none of them tell me what is going on; in order to socialize I always have to do the asking, which feels awkward. since I live off campus fb/texting is a major way for me to communicate but since I never relied on them before it again feels unnatural; for example whenever I text/fb message someone to hangout etc, they dont always respond and I cant really fb/text them again so that leaves me unsure what to do next. because of this I found myself getting left out of stuff at times. I also hate the impersonal nature of communicating through fb/text and the lack of facetime definitely created some unintentional awkward moments. it just seems like rest of my classmates are buddies while I am a step behind everyone else. is this normal n will improve as the year goes on or am I doing something wrong here?
now after 4 month of school I feel like I am not as "socially connected" as the rest of the medstudents. while I do have "medschool friends", none of them tell me what is going on; in order to socialize I always have to do the asking, which feels awkward. since I live off campus fb/texting is a major way for me to communicate but since I never relied on them before it again feels unnatural; for example whenever I text/fb message someone to hangout etc, they dont always respond and I cant really fb/text them again so that leaves me unsure what to do next. because of this I found myself getting left out of stuff at times. I also hate the impersonal nature of communicating through fb/text and the lack of facetime definitely created some unintentional awkward moments. it just seems like rest of my classmates are buddies while I am a step behind everyone else. is this normal n will improve as the year goes on or am I doing something wrong here?
