At first going away to a university can be exciting: you get to meet new people, explore, and get to live on your own. You're independent and most of the time it can be pretty great. The best part...No curfew! Yet, the feeling of missing home is inevitable. Here are the five things to look forward to going home to.
1. Your own room
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2. Homemade food
For those college students who cook, kudos to you! For the rest of us, we need to learn. But whether or not we do, it's never the same as our parents' or grandparents' cooking. In San Francisco, it's very difficult to keep ourselves from getting takeout or some kind of fruit smoothie if we want to feel healthy. Coming home to home cooked meals is the best and can never be bested by takeout.
3. Family
Yes, sometimes they frustrate us, sometimes there are big arguments, and sometimes we don't want to see them. However, whenever you spend time away from them, coming home and seeing how they are is pretty great. Maybe the way they act hasn't changed, but you don't realize how much you've missed it until you go back home. My brother and I use to not get along very well, but moving out of the house and living with a girl made me really miss my brother.
4. High school friends
I don't think it's true when people say you won't stay friends with the people you met in high school. If they were truly your friends, it doesn't matter where you go or they go, you'll always be a part of their lives. I think the best part of meeting up with old high school friends is going back to your high school and just reminiscing as well as terrorizing all the younger people you know. Sorry guys, I love you!
5. Not being stuck at school
I luckily live off campus, but I can imagine that it's difficult to live on campus, or at least the difficult part of being unable to leave campus often. Even though you can call Uber, take the Muni, BART, or any other form of public transportation, it gets expensive. You can have a car but it tends to be expensive to leave it at school. When you go home, I think it's nice to know where to go and be able to come home whenever without worrying about parking.
With finals week coming to an end and everyone going home, I wish you all a great summer.
