Is it hard to make friends in a four year university after leaving the military?

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Anyone have any personal experience with this? Oh yeah, one more thing. I respectfully request that all of you people out there that will say "you are in college to get an education and not to socialize" to refrain from those stupid types of comments. You folks that say that are probably the SAME people who already have your OWN families as a source of support socially and otherwise. Unfortunately, I am still NOT married because I joined the wrong branch of service (Marine Corps) and got stuck in the hellhole of Jacksonville, N.C. where there ARE NOT any single women and the civilians DO NOT like Marines within a 100 mile radius of Camp Lejeune. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for someone like myself who is in their late 20s and just getting their undergrad in terms of at least trying to fit in and have a social life. BTW, I currently have a 3.8 GPA at the community college just in case some of you think that I am a slacker.
 
Some people can make friends anywhere, some have trouble everywhere. It has more to do with YOU than where you are.

If you make friends easily in the military you probably will also in university.
 
I is tough for the first year or so, as you are older than most college freshmen. It is easier to have a social life in college as an upperclassman, as the difference in maturity level is not as great.

I made more friends later in college than in my first two years. I was much older than most college students, as I did six years of active duty before college. I had more friends as a graduate student; there were older students and I also socialized with some professors.
 
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