Right now, countless incoming college students are asking that precise question. Bialek, an assistant professor at the WashU John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, recently published the book “Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry” and teaches the popular WashU course “Love & Friendship.” “The meaning of the good life, what makes a good friendship — these can be rigorous topics of philosophical and other forms of inquiry. What advice would you give to incoming college students who are worried about making friends? Today’s college students are certainly better at maintaining friendships than I was when I went to college, because we didn’t have technology of this kind.