I’m close-ish to your age and college is the reason I basically never ate alone. When I was in the dorms, my roommate or friends and I almost always went to the dining halls together. If I had to catch lunch on my own due to a weird schedule or whatevs, I’d chat up somebody new and (hopefully) make a friend. Then when I was in an apartment, my roommates and I ate together to save money. But I went to a school with a big campus, far away from where I grew up.
Went to college, roommates were introverts who ate in rooms because my college didn’t have dorms, so just apartments where a bunch of us had spread out. I think the most I ate with others was lunches where there were a lot of people in a student lounge, but that’s one of those not anyone eating together, just where everyone cycled in and out and whoever happened to be eating was eating there.
But being commuter college means that lunch was the only time the dining hall was open so otherwise, pretty much eating on own 90% of the time.
I mean… through the 18-24 area, I pretty much ate every meal alone.
Still do at 38.
I’ve always eaten alone. Even as a child we never did family dinner - it was quickly feeding me so that my father could eat.
Did you go to college?
I’m close-ish to your age and college is the reason I basically never ate alone. When I was in the dorms, my roommate or friends and I almost always went to the dining halls together. If I had to catch lunch on my own due to a weird schedule or whatevs, I’d chat up somebody new and (hopefully) make a friend. Then when I was in an apartment, my roommates and I ate together to save money. But I went to a school with a big campus, far away from where I grew up.
Went to college, roommates were introverts who ate in rooms because my college didn’t have dorms, so just apartments where a bunch of us had spread out. I think the most I ate with others was lunches where there were a lot of people in a student lounge, but that’s one of those not anyone eating together, just where everyone cycled in and out and whoever happened to be eating was eating there.
But being commuter college means that lunch was the only time the dining hall was open so otherwise, pretty much eating on own 90% of the time.
When I lived in my old apartment in college me and my roommates would share dinner to save money