I assume you're American? Then I'm already confused by the use of the word 'friend' because that could be a person you've been talking to every day for decades or someone you interacted with three times on Twitter. I am honestly lost when someone says 'friend', sometimes it's 'good friend' and I might be persuaded to believe it's what I would call a friend.
To the point, seeing as nearly all universities here are not campus universities (and interestingly, if they're a campus university your housing might still be somewhere else in the city and your friends may as well live in another neighborhood) - do continental Europeans have less (intensive/amount) friends than Americans? (Please disregard my first paragraph now :P). I mean that's pretty hard to measure already - some value quality, some value quantity, and for everyone a certain number feels okay.
Anecdote time. I studied at a university in my home town and made very little friends in my 'class' (as in the year I started) but I formed quite a few better bonds with people in our IRC chatroom and the forums, all having 1-2 years later than I did. So while I might in theory regret mostly hanging out with my highschool (and other) friends, I simply didn't get along very well with the people at university. But I actually did make friends (and also people I enjoy seeing again) at the job I worked at during my studies (and a bit longer).
To the point, seeing as nearly all universities here are not campus universities (and interestingly, if they're a campus university your housing might still be somewhere else in the city and your friends may as well live in another neighborhood) - do continental Europeans have less (intensive/amount) friends than Americans? (Please disregard my first paragraph now :P). I mean that's pretty hard to measure already - some value quality, some value quantity, and for everyone a certain number feels okay.
Anecdote time. I studied at a university in my home town and made very little friends in my 'class' (as in the year I started) but I formed quite a few better bonds with people in our IRC chatroom and the forums, all having 1-2 years later than I did. So while I might in theory regret mostly hanging out with my highschool (and other) friends, I simply didn't get along very well with the people at university. But I actually did make friends (and also people I enjoy seeing again) at the job I worked at during my studies (and a bit longer).