Being in college is weird because it just turns in to this in between of life. There's the in-between of where you live and you never know how to answer, and the in-between of adulthood.
I go to school in Maryland, but I grew up in Pennsylvania and it has created this confusion of how to answer the question of "Where do you live?" Well I live in both places, and both are my home, but it's still weird to say both places. If I say I live at college, I can still get the strangest of looks, but if I say I live in Pennsylvania people ask me what I'm doing there. Maybe it's me but I always find these conversations kind of uncomfortable. When I'm home, I answer here, but I just don't feel like it's the right answer. I spend more time at school than I do at home, but I'm still from there and I still live there a decent chunk of the year.
The other in-between of college is that it's the in-between of growing up, the limbo of adulthood. There's this weird feeling that I'm an adult and I can do what I want, but I don't have a real job, I don't take care of all of my expenses, I still have a lot of help. However, I don't have a curfew, I live with a roommate my age most of the time, and if I want ice cream and to pass on the greens at dinner I most certainly can. There's so much I can do and control in my life, however, there's so much that I have to look to my parents for, or at least an "adult" for, even though legally and technically I am an adult.
College is weird for so many reasons. However, it creates such an in-between of life. Then, after the in-between leaves, you live where you sleep and you are suddenly a real adult with expectations like taking care of the phone bill, water bill, and whatever other kinds of bills you have to do as an actual adult. I'm very thankful for these in-betweens because where I live is fun all around and not being an real adult is pretty great too.
