I totally know what you were talking about, when I went to my first college, everybody sucked, so I transfered to a big city. And I'm wide awake its morning is one of the most fantastic albums ever, you just have to have had the right experiences to really understand it.
My advice to you, be a hipster snob, and go the whole year drinking wine heavily while you're alone. Then transfer, and everyone in your old school will talk fondly about you and how cool you were. I'm also really excited for the upcoming bright eyes shows, some of my friends went to them, and for an encore, connor gets on stage alone with his guitar with a single spotlight and plays "Lua." A lot of people cried.