I'm going into my second summer break from college and even though I feel completely over this semester and cannot wait to go home, I know that I will be over being home soon enough. When you go home from college you are blinded by the food, your bed, and the shower but once you get out of that haze, you realize that your "home" is no longer your home, and you see the downsides of being there.
1. Being home means having to obey your parents rules
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Curfews, asking your parents if you can have friends over, needing to tell them where you are/ going to; you completely forgot that these were things that used to be normal pre-college.
2. Family can be suffocating
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As much as you love them, and as much as your parents, siblings, etc. may just be acting normal, it feels extremely suffocating to you.
3. Your house feels foreign
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Maybe it's because you are so used to living with a roommate, or maybe your room doesn't have the same decorations and other things as your dorm room, but there is definitely something off about being home.
4. But your bathroom, more specifically your shower, feels like heaven on earth
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Two words: water pressure.
5. Home-cooked meals
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No more Sodexo. Hello, Mom's cooking.
6. All your friends aren’t within a five minute walk
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You mean, I have to drive to see friends? They aren't just a door or building away?
7. You look at old pictures to relive your college fun
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This seems like such a nice idea at the time, but then you just get depressed because it'll be months until you see them again
8. Your high school friends aren’t the same
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You think that after college your high school friends will be the same as they were but they won't. And that's okay because you aren't them same, either.
9. Work
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As much as this means that you may not be able to go to the beach or out with friends as often as you would like, you do get paid and it will be more than work study. And sometimes work can give you a break from being home.
10. Summer classes
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Maybe you're taking them online or at your local community college, but just because it's summer doesn't mean you can totally slack off.
11. Nights aren’t the same
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There won't be college parties or going out with your best friends. Also, you have to awkwardly make sure your parents know that your drinking is not that weird, because you are in college and they know what that means.
12. You are not quite readjusting to your summer schedule
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Going to bed at 3 am is not as normal as it was in college, so you're always tiptoeing around.
13. There's nothing to do
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You realize after the hundredth time that you go to the same park, movie theater or wherever you go with your high school friends that your home town is really boring. Even Netflix gets boring.
14. Your family and friends ask stupid questions
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"What year are you in?" "What are you majoring in?" "Are you dating anyone?" "What are you going to do after graduation?" (The last one, especially, is my favorite because I have heard it since before I even left for college, and now that I am in college my answer hasn't changed.)
15. You count down the days to going back and don't want to leave at the same time
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You hate it, you love it, you want to leave, you want to stay, you don't really know what you want.
