BritishTuring said:Considering I don't know the first thing about american college life, this sounds like really good advice.
Preliminary communication with your coming schoolmates will put you on the social map I'm sure and if you can do something that will draw attention to you (in a good, socially acceptable way) at the start of your college life you'll really get a headstart in socialising with these people.
But yeah, pretty universal, I'd say, strike while the iron's hot, if you will. Make some key close friends, they'll make friends of their own, and you can be introduced in due course, just don't go out on the first day looking for your wife.