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:

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:

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?":