Being at college, it’s exciting to be free, and away from home. But let’s be honest, we can’t go that long without seeing our pets. The first few weeks are fine, but then you go a month without being able to take a shower in your own shower, or sleep in your own room, or without a home cooked meal, and it hits you, hard.

On long weekends, people make plans to go home. But if you are like me and don’t have a car to drive home in, or like my friends who live in different states, the long weekends aren’t a time to go home. It’s a time to eat ice cream and pizza with your friends because you can’t go home to pet your dog.

Yeah, there is Face Time, so you can talk to your parents and siblings, and see how your pets are doing, but that is not the same. There is so much that you will miss being away from home, that you didn’t even know that you would miss. You will miss being able to shower in a clean shower, miss being able to go to pantry full of food, miss bugging your siblings, basically everything at home.

Don’t get me wrong, college is great, I love it so much. But there are times where I just need a hug from my dad, or a long conversation with my brother. I call them as much as I can and talk to them, but that is not the same as being with them. You can only look forward to the times when the family says they are going to come up and see you or when you are able to catch a ride home.

Being homesick is nothing like being sick with a cold. It is a lot worse than having a cold, because the only way to make it better is to go home. But when you can’t go home, then you are just going to be sad until you can. Or until you get over it.

In general, it just sucks being homesick.