I've been wanting to know how I can fit into a friend group, and then I came across this old post above, and I thought it was some pretty solid advice.
And it's mid-semester for me so breaking into a friend group seems like a good approach for me, given that I'm someone who's often friends with certain individuals but aren't really part of a friend group. Aka it's hard for me to become friends with friends' friends.
From my history the biggest thing for me was not being interested in what held the friend group together; eg. I would bond with one kid over a shared interest in Minecraft but his friends all like Fortnite and I didn't.
But then in HS I was in band and I figured I had the whole shared interest gimmick figured since most of my friends came from those who played the same instrument as me, but when the friend group formed it was largely bonding over fortnite and brawl stars, neither of which I play.
a lot of ppl pretend to like what their friends like bc let's be honest you sometimes have no choice being a kid, but I'm not a kid anymore and I never really f'd w the concept of becoming friends w others by forcing myself to like what they like