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Why Packing To Move Home From College Is The Worst

The time to move all your stuff has come again.

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It's that time of year again. Students all over the world are finishing up their spring semester and getting ready to return home. If you live in a dorm room, packing is a real struggle. Everything you worked so hard to pack up to bring to campus months ago now has to go back where it came from. Chances are, you don't remember how you packed it to get to campus, so repacking it all is even more difficult.

Luckily for me, I only live about an hour and a half away from my campus so even though moving is a hassle, it's not the end of the world. For those who don't live in-state, moving can be a real pain in the butt. Parents have to make plans to take days off work just to help students pack and organize to make the grueling trip back home.

Bringing things into a dorm room is of course necessary, but around this time each year, students usually begin to question if it is all worth it. It takes so much time to take all your things and neatly prepare it to be transported from one place to another, and while trying to do all that while studying for final exams can make this time of the year one of the most stressful times of the year.

There is so much to do in so little time. Some people have to pack up an entire room's worth of stuff because they had a single dorm, which is even more work than those who have a roommate. For me only having to pack half of a room, it still took me several days. Now imagine trying to prepare to go home while still having to put in hours of studying in to pass the last tests of the semester. Some of these exams determine if you pass the class or not.

Good luck to everyone who is finishing up the semester and preparing to go home.

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