Alright guys: here it comes - the holiday season. And with the holiday season, we will all be traveling home to spend time with our friends and family. Exciting, right?

Well, to an extent, yes. But with the amazing food, family games and just all around merriment and joy, there is a dark side to being around extended family for any period of time.

The questions.

You know the ones. The prying, backhanded questions from your relatives that you haven’t seen since Christmas last year that make you question your entire existence.

So, in order to help you get mentally prepared for the good-intention questions from grandma and your great aunt: here is a list of likely inquiries, just so you know what to expect.

“Are you seeing anyone?”

“Why don’t you ever bring any boys around?”

“What’s your major again?”

And see their disappointed nodding when you tell them, once again, that you’re Wildlife Sciences.

“Do you think you’ll be having kids in the near future?”

“How old are you now?”

“What are you planning to do after college?”

*screams internally* I HAVE NO IDEA.

“Have you gained weight?”

“Do you really think that you should be eating that?”

“What do you want as a gift this year?”

I need to pay bills, fam.

“What are your grades like?”

“Do you ever go out and do anything fun?”

*flashback to all the Friday nights you’ve had recently curled up with Netflix.*

“Shouldn’t college be getting easier by now?”

“How are you so pretty, but you don’t have a man?”

I’m just saying that if I did, I would fix it, obviously.

“But where are you going to work after you graduate?”

“Didn’t you change your major like four times?”

“Do you actually think you’ll be able to get a job?”

Well, gee. Didn’t realize I was a fortune teller.

“Well, are you planning to get a dog, at least?”

“Why don’t I ever get to meet any of your college friends?”

Real thought-provoker, right there.

“Are you eating right at college?”

*90% sure you called me fat earlier*

“Why don’t you come visit us more often?”

And through it all, you smile through the pain and try to answer with as little bite in your voice as possible. You try to enjoy this time with them as much as possible, without running to your room and locking yourself in for the rest of the day.

But, despite it all, when you get back in your car, college bound loaded down with leftovers, you know they truly mean well. And somehow you find yourself missing them.