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...See more I am in college, and 1-2 years older then my peers, and to top it off I'm a transfer student. I've managed to strike up a conversation with a few people at the end one of my classes last year and participate with people in the class rather than the professor. Everyone was shocked that I wasn't super uptight! It felt really good to connect with people, but now it's a new sememster with new classes and I feel like I'm back to square one. In both class I know people from previous classes, but I couldn't work up the courage to sit next to any of them. These classes are much smaller and will invovle a lot of group work, so I really want to get along with everyone but I feel so awkward trying to start conversations in class! I feel like I'm so isolated from the rest of my classmates who have friends to talk to during lulls in the class. I am so frustrated with myself, I came into last class earlier with the intent of sitting down and speaking to someone but chickened out and sat alone again. I also want to get better at communicating with people in my groups, because I know I end up doing a lot of extra work simply because I felt too anxious to properly communicate with them about dividing the project and meeting with them to work on it. One class is just 7 people and I feel so isolated since many of them are already friends or aquaintences. I do know one girl and she's nice, and I did work up the courage to sit next to her, I just am at a loss as to how to start up a conversation. I just feel so scared that I might say something that will make them think I'm dumb, weird, or clingy. Once I get started talking, I'm so anxious that I talk a lot and really fast...and I fear that will make people not want to talk to me again. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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