Comment on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:31:26 GMT

These goals are not as hard as you'd think to achieve. I've basically gotten all of these by being active in several organizations on campus.

Just doing that gave more opportunities to talk to people, which as drethelin said, is very useful. If you take charge in organizing things, it helps a huge amount with social respect/status. The wide range of acquaintances happens by default.

You do have to make the effort to start hanging out with people outside the regular meetings though. It's pretty easy to do that if the meeting is just before a meal time, because then there's the convenient suggestion of eating together. In other cases, invite them to a party, along with several other people. Being known as the one who organizes groups is very useful for your goals.

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