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Hangs.
“How could this place of 50,000 people be the loneliest place in the world?” Daniel Kwarcinski asks,
and it’s a question that I don’t know how to answer. “It just doesn’t make sense,” he says.
For Dan, the campuses of Australian Universities are paradoxical in nature – packed with people of
around the same age, yet notably lacking in terms of opportunities to meet friends. From conflicting
timetables to tutorial groups that leave little room for peer interaction, the sense of community that
Dan envisioned simply fell flat of expectations. “I feel like the main problem is putting yourself out
there,” Michael Leboud explains. The two are best friends, both of whom share the same concern.
“People don’t know if others want to interact. It’s hard to know who wants to make friends and who
wants to just be in and out of Uni,” Mike says.
Both Dan and Mike saw this disconnect between students when they attended Uni themselves,
experiencing firsthand the difficulties of making friends. “We struggled to meet new and diverse
people amidst our classes, commutes, and that monstrous walk between classes,” Dan says.
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