I still don’t feel at home after 3 years. Need advice.
This isn’t meant to be a post dogging on ND. I’m a rising senior and I’ve had a really hard time here. I feel like I haven’t made any real close connections and almost everything is surface level.
I feel like everyone compartmentalizes friendships here into “class friends” or “dorm friends” and there’s not a whole lot of actual crossover outside of that. Idk if that’s just me. It feels impossible to have an actual friend group and I just have these friends I’ll say hi to in passing.
I’m from SoCal and idk even the vibe here feels so different. I almost transferred out freshman year but my application conveniently didn’t submit. I’m Catholic and I think God has a reason for me being here. It felt so magical when I came for admitted students day but it hasn’t ever felt the same since then.
I joined the clubs and all of that stuff but things still never felt deeper than surface level. I went abroad last semester and had a group there and it was rlly great. I loved it. But then the moment we got back we all stopped hanging out. The same compartmentalizing thing.
I truly don’t know what to do. I feel like I wasted my college years here and it’s making me really sad. I want to enjoy ND as much as everyone else does. I just need some advice or hope that it gets better. It’s my last year in fall. This is my call for help. Please pray for me or give me any advice you have.