I mean, I'm still excited to go home and will enjoy it..for about a week. It's not that I don't love my family or don't enjoy getting to see my high school friends, but it's just weird to me. I'm a sophomore and I've had so many changes in my life, that going back home is weird.

One of the biggest changes is that I have actually moved out of my family home. I am renting a house here in my college town, will be living here next summer, and have experienced so much freedom to living on my own. Then to go home for a long period of time is something I do not look forward to. There's a weird unspoken question of "what can and cannot I do" at home that never seems to be answered. I feel like all college students feel this in some way.

Another reason of why it's weird to go home is that I've changed so much as a person. I grew up in a town of 150 and graduated with a class of 7. I didn't get to experience much. Being in college has provided me with so many opportunities to experience new things that it's changed me so much. It's weird to go back and hang out with everyone to only realize that you're not the same person. You still get along and enjoy catching up, but really the only thing to describe it is that it's really weird. Weird to realize how much you changed since you last saw someone.

This isn't to say I do not want to go home, it's more to say how weird it can be for a college student. I'm excited for the break from classes and to have a home cooked meal for the first time since Thanksgiving. I'll just be really excited to come back really quickly.