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Build repeated contact into your week. Start with Houston-area Aggie connections, but also use apartment resident events, fitness, volunteering, church if that matters to you, neighborhood coffee or restaurants and other recurring activities. Grant’s broader social framework is to experiment heavily during the first month, then keep the two or three activities that genuinely fit and repeat them. Consistency matters more than collecting one-time events.

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