"The only way to have a friend is to be one"

My grandmother has always been incredibly proud of me. When her friend asked if I'd cope okay going to uni a year later, as my friends had all gone the year before she replied "Robin would make friends if she was captured by a tribe of human cannibals". 

Now I wouldn't necessarily agree with this but I'd like to think I'm pretty good with people and I've made some great friends. 

Making friends was easily my biggest worry about university, I mean who wants to live in a new town completely alone? I certainly didn't want that to ruin uni for me. Hearing from some other people at uni I have really lucked in with my flatmates this year. At home I'm part of a family of 5 and don't even remember the last time I returned to an empty house. 4/5 of my current flatmates are living together next year (including me) which seems a rare thing according to what most people have told me, some flats just do not talk. I can't imagine feeling at all happy not trying to talk with those you live with.

Of course there are people, not that I don't get along with, that I'm not exactly mates with but that's just life isn't it. I've gone the route of just being utterly normal, as if I already knew everyone as well as I do my hometown friends. I want to be able to be myself around people and this way anyone who I want to be mates with is already accepting of who I am. 

It all just feels a little bit tricky, like some people have gone in with a game plan. This could just be that I haven't actually needed to make friends for so long. Thoughts anyone? Or questions?