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I Can't Wait to go Home for the Holidays

There's no place like Home

Paige Nelson

Nov 22, 2016

Dean College

I Can't Wait to go Home for the Holidays

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Going home for the holidays is one of the most exciting things that happen to students. It means that we get to go home, be with family, eat home-cooked meals, see our pets, be in our own beds and etc. I don't always get to see my family and the times like Thanksgiving and Christmas break when I do I get very excited.

During Thanksgiving break my family usually puts on Charlie Brown, we decorate the house for the family that is coming, make food, put on the fire, and get to be holiday cheery. Its such an amazing feeling when I wake up in my own bed to the sound of holiday music. I love the holidays and being able to spread the holiday cheer by wearing Christmas sweaters and listening the All I want for Christmas is You.

When I am home I feel like I am in my comfort place, I mean yes we all feel comfortable and safe in our homes. But home is so unjudgmental, it is the one place I can be by myself and no one gets upset that I spend hours watching Netflix instead of going outside and being social. Being around family is just the safest and most wonderful feeling we could have.

Although Christmas is my ultimate favorite holiday in the world, I have started to grow on Thanksgiving and I won't lie and say that I love it because it is a day about food. But I love it because out of state family that I don't get to see comes over my house and it is just a wonderful time. We gather around the fire and watch holiday movies, we sit around the table and joke around, and after Thanksgiving, we start to think about Christmas and even go to Newport mansions to see the lights.

I have learned over the years about how amazing Thanksgiving is and why spending it with family is so important. Growing up we start to realize the importance of being thankful for everything in our lives, especially the people we love and care for. I have met amazing people that I am so thankful for such as two best friends, an amazing boyfriend and a soon to be sister in law. Although my family can drive me crazy sometimes, there is absolutely no better feeling than packing and making arrangements to go home for even just a week vacation.

There's really no better feeling than being home... because there is no place like home.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

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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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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