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First Weeks at School After Abroad

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First Weeks at School After Abroad
Caroline McGuire

The first few weeks back to school after spending months in an entirely different country with entirely different schedules, it can be a bit overwhelming stepping back on campus. Here is how it will most likely go.

1. Reunite with friends

Reunited and it feeeeels so goooood. The squad is back together and nothing can stop you.


2. Hide

Once seeing your favorite people, you hide. Whether it's the nearest closet, bathroom, and of course the best sanctuary of all, your bed, that is where you will be found. It's way too overwhelming to just immerse yourself back into classes, lunch, rush, and more.


3. Cry

Let it out. S*** is different and you need a little breakdown here and there. Two months ago you were sitting in a cafe speaking a different language and now you're chugging gross coffee in the lib to stay awake.


4. Come up with your one liner

Everyone wants to know how your abroad experience was and of course they are going to ask, but unless you have a half an hour to spare, and to keep yourself sane from answering the same god damn question over and over again, you're going to want to come up with a line that sums everything up. I've gone for the, "It was awesome, the food and culture were amazing." Short and sweet.


5. Freak out about knowing no one

Now you start to question who the hell goes to this school. There's a whole new grade of freshman and you didn't even know the freshman from the year before. That's half a school of strange faces and it's hard to think nothing has changed.


6. Procrastinate

Abroad work was challenging at times, but realistically you were too busy traveling the world visiting ancient sites or hiking mountains and that counted towards your credit. Now it's the first week and you already have a quiz and 200 pgs of reading. Nope.


7. Adjust to parties

You're no longer going out to foreign bars or clubs, this is college and if you go to a non-bar school like Union, it means frats on frats on frats with a little house party mixed in. Be prepared to see some ratchet things.

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