Uni advice- friendships

The most important and easiest way to make and keep friends at uni is to make effort with them. At the start everyone is friends with everyone and people are super friendly because no one wants to be left on their own. But by the end of the year people usually find their friendship groups and some of those people you were hanging around during freshers seem like a thing of the past.

Some would say that your friends in secondary school and sixth form are only your friends because you see them 5 times a week and there's only a limited amount of people to be friend with. This is the reason you'll see a lot of solid friendship groups breaking down and no longer speaking to each other once they've gone to uni or one person having a complete personality and interest change as they become their more authentic self. But with uni friends it's not like this, even if they do your course there's no guarantee when next you'll see them again, so if you want to hang out you have to make plans.