How can I make friends?

A club is always a nice way to meet people who share common interests. You could also sit next to someone in class and ask them a question. If they have a pencil, if they know the answer to a particular question. Whatever… then say hi the next time you see them. If they’re in more than once class try and sit next to them again. Ask them how their weekend was. Ask them if they’ve seen a particular movie. Ask what their weekend plans are, etc etc (ok dont fire questions, but these are a few examples). People like a captive audience and they like to talk about themselves. If you dont get a positive response, just move on to the next person… Until you find yourself talking to someone you like and you have stuff in common with… The trick is to start conversation… Once you chat with the person, you could either ask if they want to have lunch, or ask if you could sit with them… I know it’s not easy to just start talking to someone, and you worry about all sorts of things. Something that really helped me is, if they dont like me (or think whatever about me) then well I didnt want to be friends with them anyway, and there are plenty of other people out there I can talk to.

This has got to be the weirdest way I have ever started a conversation with someone, but I saw what I thought was a monkey on the ground, and so I turned to this girl who was walking out of class with me and asked her if she saw it, then I saw it was a cat, so we started to talk about cats, then pets, then her family and where she was from, and we ended up chatting for 15 minutes…