Originally Posted by
digderidoo 
My heart goes out to you because i know exactly where you are coming from, my advice would be to work hard at finding new friends, it does take both patience and time but will happen if you work at it.
Paul
Thanks Paul. My current dilemma as far as making new friends is that I am also moving to a new city this summer. It sounds silly but I don't want to go to the effort of finding a bunch of new friends only to leave in a few months.
Sounds like a cheap excuse for not putting forth an effort but I've lost a lot of friends, and "friends," just recently and I'm tired of that. I guess I'll just have to tough it out. The good news is there should be a number of new grad students in my same boat: in a new city and friendless. That always makes it easier.
And zx... four years! Glad you're coming out of it.