Be strong, okay? Just try to make the best of things. Go around campus and talk to the different students all around there. It may take some time but you'll make some new friends soon. Not too sure what to suggest for everything else though. Just keep hanging in there. You can do it.

Often times, the most challenging things that we have to deal with, are quite beneficial in the long run. It may be a little difficult to meet new friends where you are, but you sound intelligent and very capable of establishing meaningful friendships. I have no doubt that you simply need to "stick it out" as suggested, and try to accept the challenges as they come. You may also wind up learning more if this school is harder than you were used to, and if it is more prestigious, than your career may also likely benefit from this change. Please try not to feel too overwhelmed, and don't lose sight of the bigger picture.

isn't there like a counseling group or advisor you can go to, and i don't, think about what it would be like if you transfered back, yes, you would have friends but you wouldn't even have the pouring coffee job, so i think you should sit down and list all the pros and the cons of living where you are now, 1 i can tell you is that no matter if you're average in that school it would be better for you in the future to list that school as your in your CV, 2 i think guys are better at taking your mind off things, take advantage of that, i don't have one guy friend and i wish i did and if you need a girl to talk to i'm a girl...3 in this economy i think you should be happy that at least you have a job, i'm not telling you to suck it up, i'm just trying to help you start your list ;) and if it doesn't work, then i wish you all the strength in the world, i know is hard

Thanks guys. I know I just need to stick it out, and I know that eventually my social group will expand just like it did back at my old school. It's just been such a hard few months and I just need to let out how I've been feeling because I really don't have anyone to talk to about how I'm feeling on a regular basis now that I'm on the opposite end of the country as my best friend and others. I'm just so alone and it's driving me mad. I'm sure it doesn't help that I quit smoking a month ago (as of tomorrow) because that can mess with the emotions quite a bit.. but it's been longer than that that I've been having a rough go. I keep try to just snap out of it because I feel like I'm being ridiculous. I mean, when I really look at how my life is going I don't have any real problems. I manage to pay my rent and eat three meals a day, to pay my tuition, and get my schoolwork done. A lot of people have real problems that make my life a white picket fence by comparison. I mean, it's hard because I'm in so much debt and have a really meagre income and I'm not eligible for financial aid and student loan because my parents own a small business and the stupid government counts the assets as $ (not to mention the fact that my parents are really terrifically well off and I am paying for my education and everything on my own). But I'm making it. I know that the only reason I'm lonely is because it takes a while to make friends. It took me almost the whole first year to make any real "friends" at my old school, I know this. But at least there I was close enough to home that I could take a bus back to the rentals for the weekend. Here I do have my brother and the guys we live with and a couple people from work last summer that I hang out with... but I dunno, I still feel isolated. Sometimes I get really sick of living with all guys and hearing guy talk all the time - guy talk has never bothered me before, used to it, all my friends in high school were guys and I only have brothers.. but it's different I guess when you hear it every freaking day and you don't have a girl a 5 minute walk away to go chill with.
I think you guys are right that I'm better off being average at a better school than the best at an average school. It's just hard to get used to and it's been a bit of both a reality check and an identity crisis for me. I mean, here I spent the last 2 years thinking I was a really intelligent person, surrounded by people who thought I was a bloody genius, best of the best, pick of the litter. You get used to an image like that and start to identify with it. All of the sudden that image is smashed to pieces when I transfer here and find that I'm really nothing spectacular. Still a smart girl, I know that.. but not as smart as I thought I was.
I'm really just rambling here... just so much I want to let out that's been swimming around inside for way too long all pent up

"not to mention the fact that my parents are really terrifically well off and I am paying for my education and everything on my own)"

This is supposed to say NOT terrifically well off!