Yeah, I'm doing university for computer science as of now (yes, I have heard the criticisms for college, before anyone asks). The issue with things in real life is that I can't really relate to anyone at least where I live. I'm not going to say I'm superior to "NPCs" or whatever, but I'm not the type of guy who watches Netflix series and browses Twitter all day, if that makes any sense. Everyone I find also seems to have a social circle already and barely even let others in. The only exceptions are a group work I was put in today where I talked a bit with a guy who also did not have a group, and my church.
I'm not as socially retarded as I used to be a few years ago, but I barely even find people worth approaching or talking to, I mostly just talk to the guy sitting next to me about what class I'm on or something dumb like that. I barely have anything in common with people here. Even in computer science. This one guy in my past CS class talked to me about video games a few months ago, and I installed a game to play with him. It was just a World of Warcraft clone where the tutorial made me pick cotton like I was a plantation worker... After that I pushed some conversation with him, but never received a push for conversation from him. That is kind of how most of my social interactions go.
Apologies if that was too detailed or off-topic, but I don't know how else to explain.
With dating apps, it's a bit easier than cold approaching random women at a campus and probably getting called a creep or something. Not sure, I haven't tried. The one female I did approach I just cold approached when I was in high school. But yeah, she was mentally ill. I think I did fine in talking, though.
Chuckled at your mention of my username. I mostly kept it around because it was the old forum name, and I really like Taxi Driver. Announcing you are mentally retarded online is kind of retarded, in hindsight.