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The Time Between Thanksgiving And Christmas Is The Worst

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The Time Between Thanksgiving And Christmas Is The Worst
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If you're like me, the holidays are the best part of the year for you. You get to go home to your family and sit on your bum for a few weeks away from all of your college related responsibilities. You don’t have to buy groceries for a few weeks and your mom and grandmothers most likely cook for you the whole time you’re home. Being home from college is like being royalty. It’s a breath of fresh air after a semester of madness, tears, and a few emotional breakdowns. Although the holidays are grand, that bit of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the absolute worst.

Thanksgiving is Christmas tease. You get to come home and be with your family for a few days while they interrogate you about your classes and what you want to do after graduation. You have to pretend like you have your shit together and you aren’t actually crumbling at the seems. You’re pretty good at putting up the front that everything is going swell but you know as soon as you get back, it is going to be hell to try and bring your grades back up, finish all your projects, and remain emotionally stable. This time may also be spent trying to purchase all of your friends and families, and as we all know, college students are a different kind of broke. Trying to balance grocery money with money needed to please everyone can be a difficult time.

Thanksgiving break makes you not want to ever go back to school again. When you do get back for that few weeks, you sit there and crave more time with your family because those few days just weren’t enough. You got to have a little taste of the holiday moods and foods. It feels almost just like Christmas, minus the fact that you still have finals and hours of endless struggling before you can come back to the bliss we call “mom and dad’s house.”

After you get back to your college town, you spend your time planning for all the fun Christmas stuff you’re going to be doing when you finally get to close out the semester. Your mind won’t stop wandering to all of the catching up you’ll get to do with all of your friends that go to different schools. You guys will get to run around town just like the old days. But first, you have to get through the weeks that separate Thanksgiving and Christmas.

To all of my fellow college kids out there, you can do it! We are almost to the end of this semester. We are so close to getting a break. We are so close to conquering yet another semester. We are all struggling but I know that we can all pull through. Soon enough we too will graduate and work adult jobs that allow us to enjoy the holidays without constantly wondering if our future is going down the drain. That white picket fence and golden retriever are near, I believe in you!

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