The first lonely weeks at college or a new job are common. It doesn’t mean you chose wrong. It means you’re new.

Loneliness in a new place feels like evidence, and the verdict it offers is always that you made a mistake. Usually it is just arithmetic. The people around you have months or years of shared history and you have days, so of course the room does not feel like yours yet. Being new is a condition, not a flaw, and it expires.

Give it longer than feels reasonable before you decide anything. In the meantime, go back to the same place at the same time, a dining hall, a club, a break room. Familiarity is how strangers turn into people you know.