hi guys welcome to my youtube channel today's video is all about meeting new
people
meeting new people can be super daunting and very awkward sometimes and I
completely understand what kind of fears you're going through for those who are kind of
scared and don't know really how to make new friends do not worry i got you babe
so in this video I'm going to give you my nine tips to help you guys out
this video is going to have tips for introverted and extroverted as well so
the first tips is I'm going to give are things that everyone can do even
introverted and i would like to precise something: no matter who you are and what your
character is and what personality is, you must always make an effort to try and
meet new people because you could really miss out on some incredible friendships
and this is why this video has been created
I kind of really want to make sure that you guys all have the best fresh start
you can ever possibly imagine and the best year of uni
let's get right into them my tip number one is to leave the door open
usually if your fresher I mean this is especially for UK universities and
campuses but usually if you go to you in the UK you're in dorms or halls or in a
corridor with other students
I don't care if you don't have that made I didn't have flatmates and I didn't
have anyone in my corridor in during freshers I still kept the door open
you need to get the door open because people may be from other corridors are
just exploring the building and would see you, if you have your door shut, it's
kind of pointless
it says a lot about your personality and it just says that your are o pen to
just you know start new friendships and start a conversation with someone
everyone can do it even very extremely introverted people can do this so
there's absolutely no excuses
all rights and moving on to my tip number 2: go around campus during
freshers week so for those who don't know what freshers week is I've actually
made the video for you guys and I will probably think it in the bio
some people are very affected by it and feel very insecure walking alone
and I really hope that you won't feel that way during freshers week because
it's a one-time what everyone should be going out and discovering about the
campus discovering about the societies and the activities. The people who are
there during the events, during the day, on campus, they are made to make you feel
comfortable secure and included and you really and this is the best way to
actually explore what kind of society you would want to get into and meet me
people on the way, who knows, you never know, but go around campus and
start conversations with the people who are organizing the little stands and the
events. Alright people so let's move on to my tip number three: you have to do
this no no way around this
join a society it's obvious why: you meet new people
maybe you don't like your flatmates maybe you were unlucky with your halls
maybe you're not even on campus! I really hope that you will be on campus cuz my
goodness that does change a lot
maybe you guys are really unluck with your accommodation where you're living
in with who you really think so
joining us society really puts everything into perspective and really
helps you understand that it's not because you were unlucky with
your flatmates or whatever that you can't make friends outside of your halls there are
ways to meet new people even though you and the most disadvantaged accommodation
ever so joining societies is one of them and there is
everything I mean there is quidditch cheerleading rugby football business
pokemon even maybe like with the whole pokemon go going on, that I think that
there's also probably going to be something about pokemon too. Make sure
you join things that like relate to you because you're very probably going to
meet people who are like-minded just like you. My tip number 4 is kind of a
weird one and I'm surprised that some people still don't get this em basically during
your modules your lecturer will probably start talking about the group work and
group presentation and you will have to sign up to groups
the thing that really amazes me every single time is that so many of you are
keen to do with people that you know there are so many advantages to start
things start a group with people that you really do not know and this is what i
have been doing every single time
first of all doing group work and really affect your friendship
a lot i would never
want to ruin my friendship with people just because of a of course work are you
kidding me like that's one thing I've always been very careful with. The second big
reason why I don't do group work with my friends is because in real life after
student life
we will be put in a company and doing team work with people that you probably
never met at first. So important to learn how to deal with people you don't know
why you're working on a project together and I think that university is
providing you with training for that and it would be a shame to just waste that
training just because you want to do it with your friend, you will learn so much
from it and you will get out stronger in my opinion obviously be open mind when
you're with other people. The most amazing people I've ever met
it's just because i joined them randomly through group work
alright so this said let's move on to tip number five which is a little hard
core and a bit more for extroverts, basically you have to start
conversation with random people in the club and obviously when i say in a club
I actually mean the smoking area
so when I go out I go out a lot but instead of spending most of my time in
the club I actually spend most of my time in the smoking area at although I
don't smoke
just because you will find me chatting to random people and starting
conversations and the reason why I feel super comfortable doing that is because
people are usually like not very sober and they are kind of like either tipsy or
drunk
there's so much more approachable most people seem more confident that what they
are but let's move on to my tip number 6
so my tip number six is basically the same as that number five but it's
basically just start a conversation with random people when they're sober
so when the sun is out that is a much more daunting and I completely
understand if introverted people don't want to do this
I mean I feel uncomfortable doing it most of time and i find that I'm pretty crazy
and extroverted
I mean going up to someone while he or she is completely sober
and starting a conversation for me is
so daunting so i will do a video about ice breakers and all that stuff because i
feel that's super valuable and important for you guys
ok so now let's move on to my tip number seven and I my tip number seven is like
super important and it's it's basically following up
you guys need to follow up when you start a friendship
so when you start a conversation with people in the club as i said in my
tip number five, most of them are drunk and they'll probably not
remember you so if you feel the when you're talking to people for the first
time and you're having a really good conversation and it's really
flowing make sure that at the end of it you say hey like it was really i really
enjoyed talking to you
would you mind if I asked your facebook and most of the people especially if
they're drunk or tipsy they will say yes and at that point what do you do
like you don't just sit around and just accept their friendship and Basta, you
need to do something more
and that is basically the next morning or the next day you say oh thank you so
much for the conversation with that last I really enjoyed it we are so like minded
i really hope i will see you around on campus... This person will wake up with this message
and will say who the hell is this person and will probably stalk you on facebook let's
not kid around we all stalk each other on Facebook next time you bump into each
other make sure you say hi don't ignore the person just say hi how are you and
this person will just, since they stalked you,
they will remember who you are most of the time let's go to my tip number eight
and this is like by far the most important tip smile and laugh
guys I can't stress enough you can do all of the tips i said before in this
video but if you do not smile if you do not laugh if you are not someone
positive probably people will not want to stick around you... so many people
are going through crap. Focus on trying to be as positive as you
possibly can be
people will stick around you this said let's move on to my final tip and its
tip number nine
and this is basically and a more organizing
your social life kind of thing and this really helped me personally i knew
that i was going to get involve with events it was very important to me
to not miss anyone you know it can be very awkward when you throw a house
party and you just forget someone just forget you met someone and they just
find out that there was a house party and you didn't invite them
so to make sure that I am not forgetting anyone, there are these lists on facebook
you can create a list, they don't get a notification. Just do it for you and
your own organization and I have lists for basically everything so one of my
this is basically Exeter students and i put all the people I met in exeter or
in England in this case in that list
the only problem with that is that every time you add someone on Facebook you
have to add them to the list
so you have to do this from the start
so those are my 9 tips thank you so much for watching this
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Ciao!