Thanks for all the advice about making friends , but i really couldn't do some of that stuff, and wouldn't want to. I don't want to change me just to fit in. People who do that are so fake i think. I'm like that other dude i think, any friends that i do make are normally because they have come and talked to me first.
But I don't think you'd have to be fake to fit in. Attending a linux club meeting to get info on latest linux stuff or checking for a 2600 meeting in your area (YAY! Latest issue is out) isn't swaying from your true self (that is, IMHO, the search for more knowledge). Have you checked if there is a student board there? I know at our college there is a student board (albeit sometimes a whine fest) where students can yap about courses, bitch about profs (and prof meanness and toughness on tests) and just generally fool around.

Certainly your choice as to how you do things but sometimes even just attending these meetings without even saying something can benefit you in the long run and sometimes in ways not intended.