- The building of excitement to come home and minutes go by like hours. The homesickness has settled in and you just cannot wait to get home. With the thought of coming home in your head, the days seem to creep by only making your anticipation rise with each passing minute.
- Realizing that your family consists of the best human beings on this Earth. Walking through the door for the first time and seeing your family members has to be one of the best feelings in the world. You receive the familiar hugs, questions, and laughter that has been lacking over the last semester and you could not be happier.
- Eating your mom’s homemade cooking and thinking how fortunate you are to be eating such fine cuisine. Let’s be honest, eating fried food for almost every single meal gets old really quickly. Not only do you find yourself missing your favorite homemade meals but also the meals you refused to eat when being a permanent resident at your house. All we can say is thank you moms for your non-fried food.
- Being reunited with your high school friends. You finally get to catch up on all of their new experiences, drama, hilarious party stories, and boys. You need to soak it all up with the buddies you have been missing since you left.
- Parenting comes back in to play. Wait what? I have a curfew? You have got to be joking.
- Hitting up every single food place that does not exist in your college town. After having to discover new late-night binge restaurants at school, you have come to miss the old faithfuls. These cheap restaurants hold high school memories and a special place in your heart.
- Having a run-in with kids from your high school class. Those kids you thought you would never see again, think again. You seem to be seeing them EVERYWHERE, especially the ones you do not want to see. You make small talk, only sharing your AMAZING new stories from school and pretending like you never felt a drop of homesickness and never looked back for a second.
- Realizing just how much college has changed your friends. College: it changes you. There is no other way to put it. Your friends make new friends, grow up a little, and become a little like their new friends at school. Newsflash: it is ok. Nothing stays the same!!! You just have to make a little room to grow with these new people you call your “friends”.
- Spending enough time with your family to last a lifetime. Remember when you said you missed your family and could not imagine how you lived without them for the last four months? Now you remember. After being asked the same questions at least five times it gets a little old. While you missed your family and it is great to see them, it becomes clear why you were so excited to leave for school in the first place.
- Having withdrawals from going out and partying. As much as you like chilling at home and being back at your old stomping grounds you begin to remember just how boring your hometown is. The lack of parties is alarming and it seems like all anyone does is go out to eat.
- Missing your crazy school friends. After living with these guys and girls for a full semester, a certain bond forms. They witnessed the three plates of food you had for dinner, the pajamas you wore while eating that dinner, the bad decisions you made the night before, and the late-night studying sessions that mostly consisted of eating chips and complaining about the test you have the next day.
- Realizing that you have actually come to miss your small but “cozy” room. Because although you have survived living in a closet for the last four months, it has somehow become a safe haven that you cannot wait to come back to.
- Saying all of your bittersweet goodbyes. While you cannot wait to see your friends and live by your own rules again, you find yourself shedding a tear for the family and friends you are leaving behind, the comfy bed you are going to long for, and the good food you will not be eating again until your next break.
- Being reunited with the place you now consider home. You receive hugs all around, share your high school friends’ crazy stories with your college buddies, and eat that one food you have been craving since the day you left. Because while it is good to go back home, it is also good to come back to your new one.
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2. Searching through list after list to get everything you need
Every store has their own list of what you need and you’ve reached a point where you can’t decide which one is right anymore.
3. Shopping for deals
Ads after ads, coupons after coupons, you go shopping all the time and hope you get the best deal.
4. Getting bins to put everything in
Buying bins after bins and hoping you have enough for all the essentials
5. Figuring what you can’t live without
You can’t just take your entire room and place in your dorm. You need to figure out what you need.
You can’t just take your entire room and place in your dorm. You need to figure out what you need.
6. Going through clothes to find what you need
You have too many clothes and you don’t want to forget your favorite pair of sweatpants.
7. Finding out your siblings took something from you
You knew that top was somewhere, turns out it was in your sister’s dresser.
8. Fighting with your parents.
You know what you need and despite what your parents say yes you need that poster.
9. Trying to plan things with your roommate
If they don’t live by you, the discussion of who’s bringing what becomes harder.
10. The fear of forgetting something
While overpacking is a thing you’re scared you’ll forget something. You go over what you packed in your head a hundred times.
11. Move in day
You thought packing made you nervous but here comes move in day, this makes packing look like nothing
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1. Most students just take life day by day.
2. That means procrastinating, one day at a time.
3. College students don't mind dressing like crap sometimes.
4. In fact, dressing nice feels weird.
5. College students get so stressed that they contemplate dropping on a daily basis.
6. But most find another solution to deal with that stress.
7. And that solution can be pretty cheap. Anything over $5 is expensive.
8. One of the only things college students will spend money on is coffee.
9. College is just really expensive and you never forget how expensive it is.
10. But hey, we're getting a somewhat high-quality education, right?
11. We all really just want to pet dogs all day.
12. And eat pizza for every meal.
13. And stab the next person who asks us what we want to do with our life.
14. However, despite the stress and student loans, college is amazing and there's plenty of reasons to smile.
Thank you, April, for inspiring us with your wicked relatability.
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