First of all I just want to apologize for my many posts (I feel like I've been making a lot). Also for not responding to most of the comments. I've been really busy lately with college, but I'll try my best to this time.

Anyway a new semester just started Monday. I'm glad to be starting off fresh with new people instead of the ones last semester who most likely found me awkward. I really really don't want this semester to be like the last one. I want to make friends that I can hang out with and be happy. I actually started speaking to these two girls in my History class. I'm happy, but I'm also scared. I'm pretty good at making acquaintances, but I'm awful at making those acquaintances into friends. After awhile they usually just stop talking to me. My grandma told me it only ends that way because I expect it to, but that's the only way I can think. I don't want to anymore! When someone starts a conversation with me I'm so happy and also so nervous that I start staring off into space not hearing a thing that person said. So I don't respond. And I'm guessing that's what drives them away. I have to concentrate super hard to be able to listen to them.

I just want some advice on how to quit being so scared of the acquaintances I meet just stop talking to me. I know I can't be good friends with all of my acquaintances, but I just want to be able to talk to them without worrying about that.