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The only suggestion I could make is to try to schedule an upper level class totally outside your discipline. Since you were unaware of the word, "dopplganger", I would suggest a lit class. Maybe pop culture, or pop lit.
Other than that, offer to work tech for a college play, or even audition.
Part of this is blatant, there are more women in these classes and in the college theatre crowd (me was Alpha Psi Omega - the drama frat) and you'd have to be socially handicapped not to... um... get along with them. Oh, the stories I could tell about drama chicks.
The other part is that these kinds of challenges will bring outside your comfort zone and therefore make you more comfortable in unfamiliar situations. Comfort=confidence. Confidence=charisma.
If you are hesitant to do these kinds of things because of the whole "freshman finding a niche crowd", then you need to figure out how to get comfortable with that.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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