Socializing: More than Partying
Take advantage of office hours when you have question and not just after you receive a grade that you don’t like. Look up your professors, online and in library databases, to find out what they have written and published, if it interests or impresses you, let them know. Just because everything about socializing isn’t easy for you or the way others do it strikes you as insincere or manipulative doesn’t mean that you can’t find a way to engage your department, both professors and students, in a way that develops your professional contacts and suits you.