• Do you participate in extra-curricular activities: Cultural Activities Office, volunteer activities, etc.?

• Do you spend time with friends and know how to generate conversations?

• Do you know how to start and maintain a conversation?

• Do you know how to communicate verbally and non-verbally?

• Are you able to speak in public?

• Do you have an open attitude when it comes to meeting and being with more people, without letting yourself be carried away by prejudices?

• Do you know how to manage in an environment of work with unfamiliar people?

• Do you know how to discover the virtues of others? Do you listen to others in order to learn from them?

• Do you understand the relationships core topic and relevant social settings both inside and outside the university?

• Do you take an interest in the problems of others and try to give them advice?

• Are you capable of handling conflicting situations in which the interests of some are opposed to those of others?

• Are you able to bond with another person?

• Do you spontaneously express your own feelings or ideas in a way that is understandable to others?

• Do you know how to get support from your contacts?

• Do you know how to ask for financial aid when you need it?

• Do you know who to turn to for specific problems?

• You are not able to adapt to situations with unfamiliar people.

• You reject activities that have to be done with other people.

• You are very shy and do not participate in conversations. You shy away from environments where there are many people. You prefer solitude to company.

• You think that the Cultural Activities Office, from volunteer activities, etc., are not enriching.

• You are not interested in subject social events related to your university field. You do not know which people, events or institutions are core topic for your activity.

• You do not engage in activities with classmates outside of the schedule classroom.

• You are closed, prejudiced, you do not want the group of friendships to increase. You easily "label" people or certain social groups.

• You focus only on your own problems.

• You don't know how to criticize constructively.

• You lose attention in conversations.

• You do not take advantage of contacts with relevant people to solve your personal or professional needs. You think that others have nothing to contribute to you.

• You are not able to ask for financial aid when you need it.

• You reject opinions different from your own.

• You do not value the ideas of others.

• Do you consider that you have a good relationship with your university environment: classmates, professors, etc.?

• Do you think you could bring more to the conversations with the people around you?

• Do you feel displaced in conversations with your peers?

• Are you afraid of making a mistake in your contribution and prefer not to state your opinion so as not to feel undervalued?

• Do you feel comfortable among strangers?

• Do you get involved in the activities offered by the School?

• Do you frequently attend formal or informal events related to your university or social environment or do you try to "get out of it", looking for an excuse?

• Do you schedule more or less explicitly spaces for informal chatting with colleagues at work or studio?

• Do you try to spend more time with your colleagues outside of study hours and work so that you can talk about other topics?

• Are there people who regularly turn to you informally to discuss personal and/or professional matters?

• Do you try to listen to the problems of your personal and/or academic colleagues and put yourself in their place or, on the contrary, do you try to avoid it?

• Do your contributions change depending on the people you are with?

• Do you know who to ask for an opinion when faced with a difficult decision?

• What do you think it brings you to meet and interact with different people?

Stagnant water rots, and it is necessary to maintain healthy friendships and groups that are not hermetic. And, as a general rule, to meet more people you need to take the initiative. A simple exercise is to take advantage of breaks and lunch to get out of your comfort zone and talk to groups other than your usual one.
Try to meet someone new every week. Try sitting at classroom in different places each week, establishing conversations with new neighbors.
Solve doubts you have with the teachers or with the staff of the school in a staff way whenever you can, since from the confidence teacher-student you learn more than just from the blackboard.
When it is time to talk, establish interesting topics of conversation, not only about university life.

To meet more people with similar interests to yours, try attend to the events that interest you that are organized at the university. Lectures, courses, sports tournaments, clubs...
If you keep an eye on the different means of publication of these events, such as the Newsletter or Vida Universitaria, it will be easier for you to see where you can go.
Write down in a calendar or in the notes the selected events, the date and with whom (or whom) of the people around you can go. This way you will meet more people and strengthen the friendships you already have.

There are many reasons why they may ask for your financial aid: a committee, a subject, an opinion about a work or an action, etc.
Listen carefully to what they say, don't interrupt, and then respond. Don't be in a hurry to help others.
When giving advice, draw on your experiences to arrive at what the person who asked you for financial aid really wants to do. It's not about giving optimal solutions, just comforting and guiding through the rough patch they may be going through.

Don't be afraid or prideful when asking for financial aid.
Depending on whether they are personal or professional, choose the person who can help you best.
Explain yourself sincerely, openly, and listen carefully to what they tell you and put on internship their advice.

Sign up for activities where you have to collaborate and help others.
Sign up for at least one.
Get to know the members who participate, their interests and tastes, the Degree where they are, known friends...

To find out what's going on around you, you first have to get to know your classmates, so that you can always start by going out for a drink or a meal together before a study trip, for example.
Try to find out what plans are being prepared so that you can join in and have the opportunity to get to know your classmates and friends better. Organize yourself well so that you don't have the excuse of not having time.
Make varied plans, open to everyone so that more people can go. Get to know the cultural life of the city to be able to propose, as well as visits to the surroundings, new restaurants...

When you have questions at class about topic or about the notes, don't hesitate to ask your question. Don't be afraid to answer the questions the teacher throws at you. class
If you formulate it with a little humor it will become more interesting and will be less violent for you.

We can unconsciously fall into an attitude that avoids situations in which we are alone with our thoughts. We can take out our cell phones, listen to music or any other form of distraction. But these moments are fundamental to know ourselves, and in the relationship with others we cannot give what we do not have.
Put away the cell phone in the moments when it is not necessary, and locate the moments that you can dedicate to think to "reserve them" and thus gain in your interiority.

Strong interpersonal relationships are built on the premise that they will help the other person to get to know him/herself better, to bring out the best in him/her. Therefore, it is important to talk about your inner self from time to time.
Take the initiative and ask a close person every now and then, in the time interval you estimate, about how you are, what you can improve, what your strengths are, if there is something he/she has to tell you (something that makes him/her nervous or something you could try harder to do), etc.
Take advantage of the confidence generated in that conversation and then, in the time interval you estimate, talk to those people about them (what are their motivations, what failures they have had in life, what people they admire and why...). Everything you have to comment, gently but without fear.

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