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How Coming Home From College Feels As Told By "The Office"

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Maddie Lancaster

Dec 16, 2016

Ohio Wesleyan University

How Coming Home From College Feels As Told By "The Office"

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As finals wrap up and the semester draws to a close, we college students pack up our bags and make the long journey home. Some people get two weeks, some three. My school fortunately gives us a month off at Christmas time. A whole month of no homework, tests, or essays. The perfect time to binge watch 100's of... errr.... I mean spend time with your family. I LOVE coming home for the holidays. But it is always a little weird coming home. It is if like everything is different, yet everything is the same. You also have two different lives now: your home life and your college life. Going home is great, do not get me wrong. But there are some very mixed emotions that occur about coming home. If you are a college student coming home for Christmas, odds are you have felt these emotions or experienced these situations before.

1. When you see someone from your high school:

Sometimes, it is fun to run into an old classmate. But most of the time, we avoid them at all costs.

2. After you spend all your entire break holed-up in your room watching Netflix:

3. Sometimes, you and your siblings are best friends and you acting like you're in your own music video:

4. But other times, you want to kill each other:

*you at the sight of your sibling*

5. When your parents ask you to do chores after never having to do them at school:

6. When relatives and family friends ask you what you are doing after college, whether you are in relationship or not, how classes are going, etc:

It be better if they just didn't ask...

7. When you text your friends about meeting up over break and they are like "yeah totally" but then they never hit you up:

8. When you are driving around town and notice the slightest change:

9. When you walk in the door and you go right to your pets:

10. When you drive by your high school and your parents are like "Aww, don't you miss this place?":

And that, in a nutshell, is what it feels like to come home from college.

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Michael and crew just get us.

1. When you see someone from your high school:

2. After you spend all your entire break holed-up in your room watching Netflix:

3. Sometimes, you and your siblings are best friends and you acting like you're in your own music video:

4. But other times, you want to kill each other:

5. When your parents ask you to do chores after never having to do them at school:

6. When relatives and family friends ask you what you are doing after college, whether you are in relationship or not, how classes are going, etc:

7. When you text your friends about meeting up over break and they are like "yeah totally" but then they never hit you up:

8. When you are driving around town and notice the slightest change:

9. When you walk in the door and you go right to your pets:

10. When you drive by your high school and your parents are like "Aww, don't you miss this place?":

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The professor starts to go over something more than the syllabus

You get homework assigned on the first day of class

There are multiple group projects on the syllabus

You learn attendance is mandatory and will be taken every class

Professor starts chatting about their personal life and what inspired them to teach this class

Participation is mandatory and you have to play "icebreaker games"

Everybody is going out because its 'syllabus week' but you're laying in bed watching Grey's Anatomy

Looking outside anytime past 8 PM every night of this week

Nobody actually has any idea what's happening this entire week

Syllabus week is over and you realize you actually have to try now...or not

Chips, apple or bread?

1. You own so many pairs of khaki pants you don’t even know what to do with them

2. Chips, apple or bread is probably your most repeated phrase

3. Taking bakery items with you out to parties was a must

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5. Your friends expected you to give them free stuff

6. Being put on dishes made you question humanity

7. You saw everyone and their mother (especially their mothers)

8. Working the opening shift was actually the worst thing to ever happen to you

9. Being able to predict what people would order

10. Making coffee was your least favorite thing to do

11.Being put on the dining room was the absolute WORST

12. Secretly putting in your Panera card number when other people didn’t have them or want them.

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3. Ask people's pronouns when you meet them.

4. Use the word cisgender.

5. Stop saying "born a boy/girl" about a transgender or non-binary person.

6. Stop using the term 'preferred pronouns'.

7. Stop using a transgender or non-binary person's dead name.

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