This is an essay by a nerdy college kid about making friends with other nerdy college kids who are also desperately looking for friends. You don't need a guide

This is an essay by a nerdy college kid about making friends with other nerdy college kids who are also desperately looking for friends. You don't need a guide, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Everyone you meet is working on something they think is awesome, and they all think that what their peers are doing is awesome, and everyone and everything is awesome all the time, because they have no mundane responsibilities and spend their days dreaming about an awesome future. It's different when you're an adult and you do a lot of what you because you have to and not because it's awesome, and you're surrounded by people who also mostly do things because they have to, and talking about those things with them is sordid and kind of unpleasant for both of you, and the crazy dreams of awesome you used to have are kind of a childish phase that many people leave behind.