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Making Friends at NEIU: The Commuter School Survival Guide

Northeastern Illinois University is one of the most diverse and most commuter-heavy campuses in the country. Building a social life here is entirely doable — it just has to be scheduled.

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Making Friends at Northwestern: Evanston, the Lakefill and the Train to Chicago

Northwestern gives you a residential lakeside campus in Evanston and a city forty minutes down the Purple Line. Most students use one and forget the other.

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Modernist glass and steel campus buildings with an elevated train on Chicago's South Side
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Making Friends at Illinois Tech: Bronzeville, Studios and Small Cohorts

Illinois Tech is small, technical and international, with a Mies van der Rohe campus on the South Side. The friendships come from cohorts, labs and teams — plus a neighbourhood worth exploring.

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Film and photography students on a South Loop sidewalk in Chicago under elevated train tracks
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Making Friends at Columbia College Chicago: Collaboration Is the Social Life

At an arts school in the South Loop with almost no traditional campus, your crew comes from crews: the people you shoot, record, design and perform with.

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Making Friends at DePaul: Lincoln Park, the Loop and Everything Between

DePaul splits its life between a leafy Lincoln Park campus and a vertical Loop campus. Knowing which one you belong to — and how to use the other — is most of the social battle.

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Making Friends at UIC: A Commuter Campus Social Playbook

UIC is one of the most diverse campuses in America and one of the easiest to disappear into. Here is how to build a real social life when half your classmates leave for the Blue Line the moment class ends.

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Students on a lakefront university lawn beside Lake Michigan in Rogers Park, Chicago
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Making Friends at Loyola Chicago: Lake Shore, Rogers Park and the Red Line

Loyola has the rarest thing in Chicago higher education — a campus on the lake with a real residential community — and a neighbourhood, Rogers Park, that rewards anyone willing to leave it.

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Gothic limestone university quadrangle in Hyde Park, Chicago, with students crossing the lawn
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Making Friends at UChicago: Hyde Park, House Culture and the Life of the Mind

UChicago's social life is intense, specific and easy to misread. The friendships are there — in your house, your RSO and the coffee shops of Hyde Park — but nobody hands them to you.

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Friends laughing together at an outdoor lounge on a tree-lined street in Ikeja GRA, Lagos
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Making Friends in Ikeja: The Mainland Guide to a Real Social Life in Lagos

Ikeja has the tree-lined streets, the malls, the music and the community — you just have to stop crossing the bridge to find your people.

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Young professionals talking on a waterfront terrace on Victoria Island, Lagos, at sunset
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Making Friends in Victoria Island: How to Build a Social Life in Lagos's Business Heart

Victoria Island is where Lagos works. Here is how to turn a neighbourhood built for meetings into a place where you actually have friends.

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Things to do in Lagos this weekend: how to find plans and meet people

A practical guide to finding plans, events, meetups and low-key adventures in Lagos this weekend — and turning them into real friendships.

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