You come home for winter break and try to relax, unwind and forget about the fact that it felt like you only knew one question on your last final. Yet, it appears like everyone you know suddenly took a class in "What to ask your college-aged family member at dinner." You have to be cordial and pretend like you haven't heard these questions repeatedly. Eventually, you learn to grin, bear it, and politely answer these unoriginal questions:

1. How are you liking school so far?

In your brain:

Your real answer:

2. What're you majoring in?

After the 100th time someone says this you think:

Your real answer:

"Probably psychology, but we'll see." At which point they reply with a bad joke based on your major:

3. The dreaded follow-up question to hearing your major: What are you thinking of doing with that in the real world?

And you just think:

And then inform them that you have a while to figure everything out, but by 'a while' you mean the limited amount of time you have left in college. Then your brain goes into momentary existential crisis mode because you realize how little time you have until entering the real world.

4. Are you in a relationship?

If you answer yes to this question, brace yourself for the amount of questions you'll get concerning your significant other.

Politely answer each question with your memorized monologue on the greatest attributes and factoids about the person you're with and show them the best pictures of you two together.

5. How are your grades so far?

Even if they're not that bad, you have yet to get finals back.

But you tell people this and hope for a decent GPA:

6. Where do you go again?

Your impression of your college:

It's the best, most beautiful campus with unrealistic expectations and almost impossible classes.

Then they usually pretend like they already knew that:

But then they ask:

7. Where is your school again?

Sometimes the location is in the name and people still ask this question. You explain to them the location and move on with this conversation that you're desperately trying to end.

8. What's it like being away from home?

You tend to have mixed emotions on this question:

It's really great being independent, but you miss your hometown and the comfort of your family and dogs...mainly your dogs.

9. How's the Greek life at your school? Do you all just party?

If you're in a sorority or fraternity you answer:

Most of the time you don't mind talking about Greek life and honestly your non-Greek friends will probably get irritated with the subject really quickly. You're also quick to squash the nasty stereotypes.

If you're not in Greek life, this is probably more your answer:

It's there. It happens and you just kind of go with the flow.

10. Do you get any work done or is it just one big party?

Students get tired of this one really fast. Yes partying is fun, but college is a lot of work. We're there for more than the social life. That being said your mind probably travels to the last big weekend.

You answer that you spend most weekends in the library and studying hard. This might be a little white lie, but you're not hurting anyone.

Don't get us wrong family and friends, we love you and the attention is fun for the first day, but after the third dinner party the attention can get a bit irritating. Overall, we're still beyond happy to be home and in a bed fit for a normal-sized human.