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10 Reasons Why You Can't Wait To Go Home For The Holidays

Holidays are fast approaching, and we are excited!

Aristea Rellou

Nov 30, 2015

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10 Reasons Why You Can't Wait To Go Home For The Holidays

1. To see your holibaes!

Sure, going to college far away from home allows you to meet people who come from different cities, countries, and cultures, and as a grownup the friendships you make will most likely stay with you, but we know you can't wait to see some of the friends you grew up with! You know what we're saying. The ones who have embarrassing photos of you from 7th grade.

2. In situ laundry.

Are you tired of your biweekly visits to your nearest laundromat? Holidays is the season for you.

3. Home cooked meals! (or the food of your country, for us internationals...)

99-cent noodles never hurt anybody, but there is nothing quite like a home cooked meal.

4. DAT Dog.

City life often forces us to leave our animal friends with our families. The holidays is the time for cuddles. You know. Holding your dog tightly to your chest, whispering "I love you," as they struggle to escape from your grip.

5. Quality family time.

Once you actually pass your home's front door it is likely that you'll remember all the reasons why you left in the first place, but the brief period of time when you feel homesick and you hope for quality family time is heaven.

6. You no longer have to pay for things yourself.

When you are with family, financial responsibilities are assigned by age. If you are one of the youngest members of your pack, make it rain!

7. Hibernate freely!

With studying and working time for sleep is limited. So what if you spend 15 days in bed? We all need a break!

8. Hobby time!

Has it been six months since the last time you picked up your brush and painted something? Now you have the time to pick up from what you left.

9. No alarm clocks.

Who cares what times it is? It's not like you have school in the morning. Enjoy.

10. Basically cats!

No matter where you are, where you're going, and what you are doing there, try to enjoy the Holidays! We all need them.

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10 Reasons Why You Can't Wait To Go Home For The Holidays

Holidays are fast approaching, and we are excited!

1. To see your holibaes!

2. In situ laundry.

3. Home cooked meals! (or the food of your country, for us internationals...)

4. DAT Dog.

5. Quality family time.

6. You no longer have to pay for things yourself.

7. Hibernate freely!

8. Hobby time!

9. No alarm clocks.

10. Basically cats!

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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