University Troubles (Social interactions)

I've noticed lately that a lot of others on this site attend a college/university, so I felt like making a blog as I'm having a bunch of issues. I'm kind of hoping some of you could spread your wisdom and knowledge to a First year student like myself. Anyways, some of my issues include interacting with others, food, money, bills, work, transportation, living arrangements, etc. As I have a rather long list, I figured I would start with a random one and see where this goes! So, if you haven't guessed it already, I'll be talking about social interactions!

(By the way, I made a spoiler below on why I'm upset, feeling unwell, and injured. It really isn't that important (TL;DR), but know that I won't be able to respond as well to jokes and other things as I normally would. You can say whatever you like, just note that I may not be able to give you a good response for a while)

Spoiler: Reasons for being upset

I have a job working at a local movie theater. We have had a lot of employees coming and going lately, and it has been causing my work schedule to change frequently. My normal hours are 3pm to 7pm.. Now I've been working at completely random hours. I received a call yesterday to request that I come in to work today at 7am to 11am as they would be short on employees.. I, of course, accepted right away as I could really use some extra money as I'm running low. I soon found out I should not have taken the request..

I have been feeling kind of off lately.. I thought at first it was just caused by not eating in a few days.. Then my body began to ache all over and thought maybe it's just exhaustion from not getting enough rest. Turns out, I was actually getting sick (guessing flu, don't really know yet). Yesterday, after I accepted the request, I started feeling very ill and decided to check my temperature before taking some Tylenol PM and putting myself to sleep for the night. I was actually running a fever of 102.5 F (39 C).. I thought nothing of it, took the medicine, and went to sleep..

When I woke this morning, I had a pounding headache and aches all over.. I got up and decided to check my temperature again.. 103.5 F (39.7 C). Instantly went and downed a little ibuprofen, made some coffee (the complimentary coffee packets I smuggled from my university are TERRIBLE!), and began getting ready for work like usual. I don't exactly know what happened, but somehow things went wrong quickly. I had my stuff all ready and was bout to head out the door when suddenly unconscious.. I don't know what happened, but when I woke up, I was on the floor covered in coffee and quite a bit of blood.. I'm guessing I ended up smashing my face on one of the old rusty hinges sticking out on the door and that's what caused the large tear along my face.. I checked the time and saw that I was late for work, so I called in before cleaning myself up.. There was luckily enough workers at the theater, so I wasn't actually needed; however, that still doesn't help my reputation any for accepting a request and then turning it down after the time I was supposed to be there..

Anyways, I decided against going to the hospital as I don't have any means for paying for it. I cleaned up my wound and now here I am, totally confused on what I'm supposed to do.. Naturally I'm stressed out and quite a bit upset, so I'll be avoiding any 1 on 1 conversations for a while.. This is just the explanation for why I'll probably be in an awful mood for a bit.

So now that the introduction thing is out of the way, I guess I should get back on topic. What I'm actually making this specific blog post about is social interaction at universities/colleges. I used to work in groups as it was both enjoyable and it helped me out with my work. I no longer have my little group anymore, though. I had 2 friends who were not only members of my helpful group, but also my link to meeting others as I'm terrible at introductions and speaking to others face to face. Those 2 friends are no longer with me as of a couple months ago.. (This brings me to an off topic but important point: Don't drink and drive, it's seriously not worth it..)

Okay, back on track. I no longer am able to interact with others and I have found that I conduct my studies in complete solitude. I haven't had any issues yet, but I kind of have a feeling that social interaction is something I need to get the hang of. I have a feeling I'll need it to get a better job in the future.. I just don't exactly know where to begin. I do seem to have made a few enemies (which is odd as I've never even spoken to them before..) and am still in the process of figuring out what to do about that issue.. If any of you have any advice on what I should do, I would really appreciate it! Like, tons of respect points and all of that! Even sharing your own stories would be appreciated as well! Thanks for reading this and have a wonderful day/night!