#hellolse

However, you do have one thing in common with every single LSE student – you are all LSE students! If you use this common ground as a starting point, you’ll soon learn lots of other interesting things about your peers too, once the conversation gets going. Often getting started is the hardest part.

So here are a few conversation starters you can keep in mind if you ever feel like the conversation is running dry…

1)    What course are you doing?

2)    Are you excited about it/do you enjoy your course?

3)    Why did you choose your course/subject - what do you like about it?

4)    Did you go to the Freshers fair?

5)    Have you joined any societies yet/are you planning to?

6)    What did you do (over Summer) before coming to LSE?

7)    Do you have many 9am lectures this term?

8)    How are you finding the workload far?

9)    Where are living whilst at LSE?

10) Have you settled in where you are living?

11) What’s your favourite thing about London so far?

12) Have you had a chance to explore other parts of London yet?

Obviously these can be tweaked and adapted to the social situation you are in, but if you can have a few of these in the back of your mind at any time, awkward silences will be a thing of the past.