Finals week has arrived and so has the desperation to get the hell out of here. Don't get me wrong--I looooooove my school, but in the words of Dorothy, there is truly no place like home. Every college kid feels this agonizing pain, craving home for every reason known to man (if you don't I am truly mind blown). Finals week comes so quick and you become stuck in the current of studying until 2 in the morning (sometimes all-nighters), downing in worksheets, notes, study guides, computer screens that make you go cross-eyed, and freaking calluses on your hands from writing so dang much. Things that make me actually believe I am going crazy. But the idea of break brings me back to sanity every time...So in order to bring all of you dying college peeps back to life here are the 10 reasons why we cannot wait to go home for break (let them save you).

1. Food

( GOODBYE CAFETERIA SEE YOU IN 2017)

Home-cooked meals, mom's famous cookies, our favorite restaurants, not having to pay for groceries. WE CRAVE FOOD. I cannot wait to pull open those pantry doors and see the personal grocery store my parents have supplied me with. I can't wait for them to say "hey let's have a big dinner tonight, I am going to make your favorite meal" or your friends to text you and say, "let's get lunch, how about going to get pizza?" The overwhelming options that save us from our limited options on campus (because we are all broke and can't buy food off campus).

2. Laundry

No my mom do all of my laundry but she will help me with a majority of it, and boy does that make a difference. Plus you don't have to use the stinky school washing machines!!!! (Wofford students may be smart but they don't all know to leave the washer doors open) OH and the dorms won't be flooded with bubbles from the overload of laundry detergent!!!

3. Pets

DOGS! CATS! FISH! LIZARDS! SNAKES! HAMSTERS! RABBITS! CUDDLES WITH YOUR ANIMAL BEST FRIENDS!!!!!! That is all.

4. Siblings

(Pets are siblings and so are best friends for all the only-children out there)

Even though we beat each other up, that is our way of saying how much we missed each other!!! Ahhhh there is nothing like having a sister to take clothes from and a brother to sabotage (muahaha your girlfriends won't come around while I am home). It is so nice to have your forever friends with you all day and night, making stupid jokes, decorating Christmas cookies, and just being together (even in complete silence while we send funny snapchats to each other) I LOVE YOU GUYS AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Bed

The gif explains all...

6. Decent Bathrooms

No hall baths and messed up shower stalls, waiting to have to shower because they are all full. No mold covered bathrooms shared between four girls. No dirt or dust or hair everywhere. NO STINKY NASTINESS. Home showers are amazing, clean bathroom floors are amazing. It's like going home to your own personal spa.

7. Change

A change of pace. I can finally slow down. Sleeping late. Relaxing instead of working my butt off and enjoying being able to stop. A change of scenery, I love seeing everyone on the way to class but I am ready to stop passing the library every morning and to wake up and go to the kitchen instead. A place where I can walk in my pj's with my bed head and unbrushed teeth if I want too. Being able to go to my home grocery store where I see everyone I know, even if I don't want too.

8. No more GPS

I AM SO TIRED OF SIRI GIVING ME DIRECTIONS. I am ready to be home where I know every turn and how to get everywhere I need to go. No more having to ask my phone how to get to the dang grocery store!!!!!!!! The number of sketchy neighborhoods, and almost wrecks because of my GPS is ridiculous... SO BYE SIRI.

9. Friends

I love my friends at college, y'all are truly the best I could ever ask for, and I wouldn't have wanted to live my next four years without you... But I can't wait to be back and see everyone. The high school buddies that went through all of your dramatic break-ups, friend group fallouts, all of the high school bs with you. The weird goofing off you did with each other and the comfort of just being able to laugh and dance and be yourself around them. Walking each other through the thickest and the thinnest. We have grown up and matured and it makes us love and respect each other so much more.

10. My Parents

This is the most important.

Nothing beats the feeling of pulling into your driveway and seeing your parents walk out the front door, the excitement on their faces as you get out of the car and run to them for a huge hug. We are their babies, and we had to leave the nest and the protection they crave to give us all the time. But now we are back and they are ready to give us the love we have missed so much. The feeling when you get a kiss on the head and a hug saying "Welcome home honey!! We are so happy to see you!!" or the "congratulations!! you made it through the semester and now you get to hang out with us!!!" The comfort of those accepting arms that make you truly feel at home again. Knowing that we did it, we made it through everything.

Most of us have 10 days left before we go home to our happy places. Right now we don't think we can make it, but I am here to tell you, yes we can. 10 more days before we get to call quits...YOU CAN DO IT.

Sincerely,

A girl who should have studied instead of writing this article.

P.S.If you are reading this, I can't wait to see you, Mom and Dad!!!!!!