I had a fantastic first day classes today (Monday). I met two new people and caught up with a couple of others, and a classmate that was in my class who happened to be in my class again this semester. Long post so bare with me guys, but it's good and positive unlike a couple of Negative Nancy's.
I met a dude and a chick in my first class as well as talked to another attractive chick but more on her later. After class had ended I overheard them deeply engaged in conversation when I heard my alma mater get mentioned so I spoke up and broke the into the conversation by asking them if they both went to my alma mater and immediately hit it off with both of them.
The dude was a tall model looking looking guy with model grey eyes. I would find out that he was doing the general Media major as me, focusing more on TV and Documentary production as opposed to my interest in game design and animation. He graduated from another community college but was in the senior college for 2 years which is the same length as me. A passionate, charming fellow to say the least; we would end up exchanging numbers when I saw him and the chick again later that day and getting into deep conversation about bad professors, our very attractive professor, and what not.
The chick on the other hand was a Hispanic note taker (she's gets paid come into to take notes for a disabled student in that person's place) with very neatly done eyebrows and thick lips who graduated from my alma mater in June and had recently transferred into the school in hopes of majoring in TV Production. It also turned turned out that she was taking the same exact Media class (which is a pre-requisite to major in Media) with the same exact lecture professor as me. She looks awfully familiar; I could've sworn I saw her back during my alma mater days.
I saw both of them again much later after I came out my last class initially seeing and talking to the dude while he was waiting in line to see the chairwoman of the department and eventually the chick who met up with him.
While the dude was in the office getting advised, the chick and I continued where we left off. I learned that she had been doing the note taking job for about two years which she started doing at my alma mater's Disability office and teased her about me thinking she was a student who was sitting in the class for the hell of it, along with a few wise cracks. I told her about the lecture professor strictly prohibiting electronics in the lecture. Her interest in me was as high as mines was in her; we clearly had some really good chemistry as we had a lot in common. I think I think I could have gotten her number, but my goal was to reach out and connect to people by simply being myself. Maybe on Thursday; I'll tell her that looks familiar and if she knew the math tutor who helped me and many students graduate.
The other attractive chick from that same class had long honey colored hair the spiraled in curls and a neon pink shirt. I noticed her during the class and afterwards, but I decided against talking to her. I would end up seeing her later on at the computer lab. I broke the ice by asking her if she was in my class earlier and we had a brief abrupt conversation about her diagram, the class after ours that she stays in the room for, and our assignment. She cut it short when I saw that she focused her attention on whatever she was doing in her monitor; ice cold. I immediately took the hint, stopped myself mid sentence, and focused my monitor. Eventually she got up and left in a rush without saying anything to me. I was expecting her to ask me for my name. But I suppose her coldness had to do with whatever she was reading on her monitor which I imagine was an assignment for her next class. No biggie; I shrugged it off.
I also caught up with a dude I met at a Speed Dating event in my school whom I hit it off with and befriended as we always kept bumping into each other (my consolation prize I would end up telling my other friend while introducing him) at the lab. We were later joined by my other friend that I met last year in my Spanish Literature class. I introduced them to each other by throwing in a fact about I how met them and we were catching up and wise cracking left and right.
Lastly, I saw a chick that was in media production class last semester who was also in my class this semester outside and had a brief conversation with her before she had to go to her class. I also saw my former Asian-American/Multi-ethnic literature professor and conversed with him for a while up until he had to teach a class which ended with him buying me a carton of OJ and telling me to stay in touch with him.
It is a good indicator on how this semester I'm really looking to make new friends and potential dates as well step up my social presence/skills. It was the first time since May that I've flirted with women in person (well besides one of the chicks that my brother's dating that I saw in July and cracked a few jokes; also a few fizzled OKC conversations with women). Suffice to say, I still got it.
So yeah guys, if you're starting school again, you'd be surprised by how easy it is to talk to and befriend people; simply be yourself, speak up and say something as easy as what they think of the class be it male or female. I'm feeling really good about it and I did it without having to rely the fraternity to introduce me to people; I suppose a cushion of sorts should I quit. That doesn't mean I should strictly stick to them only; on the contrary, I've intentionally distanced myself from them because of my conflicting thoughts.
I'm evidently a very good conversationalist. I didn't talk to anyone in my last class as many people that I wanted to talk to, quickly packed up and left. Feel free to chime in. Hopefully today (Tuesday here), I'll make a few more acquaintances in my Art History class. Also having a nice haircut makes me feel incredibly good. Also smiling helps (just not excessively).
TL;DR: Great first day of classes; made plenty of conversations; befriended two classmates; conversed with another one but got a bit of a cold shoulder from her; caught up with up some friends; eluded the fraternity dudes/hanging out with them; feel good about myself (I suppose it's confidence).
We ended up going back to her place to kill time before dinner and I think we spent more time there than we did once we went to the restaurant. 
