Ohio State is a global community. If they look like all your friends in high school then you have missed something here. Use your last quarters at this university to meet new people, and engage in different things. My plea is that you push yourselves to discover the true potential that lies within you. As you pursue your studies, et your sights high, and don't become discouraged when life's inevitable setbacks occur.
Adversity creeps into everyone's life.
What is highly variable is the way people respond to it. Let me tell you about another mathematician, Pierre de Fermat. In the early 1600s, legend has it, Fermat wrote in the margin of a book that he had solved a very important theorem about integers. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough room on the margin to write the solution. If he ever did write down the solution, nobody ever found it.