Being the new girl (or guy) can be tough, especially for your senior year of high school. The way to work around the awkwardness and attempt to make friends (and sometimes failing) is not to admit defeat before even trying. Here are some steps to being the new girl.

1. Be nice to everyone. You do not know whose going to be your friends later on so be nice to everyone. Also the last thing you want is starting drama with someone in a brand new environment.

2. Smile a lot. No one has any idea who you are and the last thing you want is your resting face looking like you're about to kill and cut anyone who even thinks of talking about you.

3. Get out. Do stuff! I know you're probably sad about moving, but go out with whoever you know. You got one? maybe two friends? Who cares! That is perfect! Go out and do fun stuff with them. Explore your new home!

4. Hold onto past relationships, but not the past itself. You are in a new home now with new people, accept that. You can call and text your friends back in your old home, really you should! However, you need to get out there and make new friends too because as great as your friends are back at home you need face to face contact and you need people to do stuff with instead of being stuck in your room all day.

5. Be yourself. If you're weird. Be weird. Be whoever you are because really you get to start brand new and if people do not like you for who you are, then it is completely their loss, not yours.

Being the new girl sucks, but you have to make the best of it because what else is there to do but mope around (it won't get you anywhere). So chin up and go out there and make some friends.