How to Help Your College Student Cope With Loneliness. (2022, June 27). Verywell Family.In this article it tells us about some coping skills to deal with loneliness. It is very common for people to feel lonely and especially for some students that are not state residents. So why do people choose to isolate themselves? In the article it says “For thosewho are socially anxious and take time warming up, a new [college] environment can be terrifying,” says Dr. Glowiak. “Rather than socialize with new peer groups, they isolate.” So feeling lonely is very normal and we can deal with it by attending workshops , joining clubs, and counseling. Also parents can encourage their child to make friends and would also help them to build up confidence. This article can contribute different coping skills to deal with loneliness and that information will help with my article.
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Angela Lin
After graduating, all of our friends from high school are separating. So our friends suggested we have a meal together. During that dinner we were having a hot discussion on a problem that everyone might have faced before:“Why is our race so minority in my school? I don’t feel like fitting in and I can’t make any friends,” my best friend Yumi saidwith a disappointed voice. “Me too, 80% of the students in my school are all spanish and I don’t know how to make friends with them,” another friend said.
Everyone including myself seems to have similar feelings about this problem and are miserable on how to find a solution to it. We all missed the past time in high school where there were so many Chinese students in every class. Making friends was never a problem back in the time but now it is a challenge for us to fit in.I encouraged everyone and sought online to look for solutions that others might provide.
After researching it seems like we are not alone. There are so many others that have the same feeling. “It may be hard in the beginning but what you might not know is that it is a great opportunity for you to learn how to jump out from your comfort zone. Feeling uncomfortable is not always a bad thing and people can improve their social communication skills when in a region that they are not familiar with. Try to join clubs ormeet with a professor that you feel comfortable to discuss about how to meet new people.This kind of problem may also be happening in the future in your workplace, so learning how to deal with different people helps in our future career also.” Said Vivian Bao, a senior in Stony Brook.
Everyone has to deal with those similar kinds of problems in our daily lives and look for solutions to them. So Yumi joined a Chinese student club called CSSA. She started to join the events and activities that the club sets up and she made lots of new friends. One day when we are having lunch together she says, “Can you believe I’m starting to make friends with my spanish classmates too! I guess it wasn’t that hard when I felt comfortable in the environment”.
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This is a story that mostly anyone can feel a connection to. My best friend Yumi has graduated high school and started her brand new journey in college but she wasn’t that happy about it. She felt being left out and it was hard to make friends because she was afraid and also because there are very few Chinese students in her classes. Thankfully shechose to find ways to open herself up instead of giving up. She joined a chinese student club and made many new friends and that is not all of it. She was so surprised to find out that when she felt more comfortable it was even easier for her to make other friends from all kinds of different countries.
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