Anyone Not Make Friends Till Further Into/After Freshman Year?

I don’t really have any friends yet. I have people I talk to if we see each other and occasionally ask basic questions about class, etc, but that’s it. I’ve gotten into a self-defeating cycle of not talking to people anymore because I feel like it won’t go anywhere. I think the last time I opened my mouth to have a conversation with another student that I didn’t have to talk to was last week. It makes me feel really cut off from Purdue as a community, like an imposter.

I wouldn’t consider myself awkward or weird, I just don’t care for small talk. I feel like every conversation I have with another student follows the same checklist: “name, major, where did you come from”, and after that it just turns into the most predictable and boring exchange ever that nothing ever comes from. I’ve done this literally dozens of times now and am getting really tired of it.

Anyone else experiencing/experienced this? If you have does it ever get easier to be more genuine with people as opposed to using basically the same talking points over and over again?