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Join a group, any group. Close friendships come with time, make the time for that friend and do things together even if it's dumb. You're not there to impress

• viraptor 8y ago
  This. Some ideas I tried (some of them too late - try earlier!): board games, trading card games, martial arts, dancing, snowboarding, ... - they can all be awesome social activities. You could look at it as a numbers game - the more groups you try, the more people you meet. You'll find someone cool at some point. > Am I missing out on anything? From my experience - I wish I tried more at school times. It's much harder once everyone has their own life / family to take care of.
• TheAsprngHacker 8y ago
  Thank you for your advice. I really appreciate it. I remember showing a friend in my AP CS class the benefits of sum types for representing errors. (We use Java and I wanted to show a better alternative to its nulls and exceptions). He understood what I showed him and thought it was neat. I think that ties in with what you said about showing “the other person that there is something admirable, in morals and values or skills.” Most people probably don’t care about type theory because they’ve never heard of it, but I hope that if I show it to, say, someone else who is learning programming, they will see the same beauty in it that I do. I think that I will spend more time with this person to become closer friends with him.