Being home from college is challenging. Your weekly schedule of visiting that Krispy Kreme every Monday and eating Canes Chicken every other night, has now been interrupted by a change in scenery. The humble abode is not the same as your dorm room and now your life is revolving around your little sister’s softball games and your mom’s spaghetti again. These are the 10 stages of moving home from school for the summer.
1. Vegging out in attempt to recover from finals
Finals week has taken all your energy in the past week and now you need to sit and recharge. Now you need to sit and watch a National Geographic documentary while eating the can of icing you found in your parent’s fridge. Set your phone on silent and expect some M.I.A. texts, because you aren’t moving for the next 24 hours.
2. Drowning in laundry
Now that you have enough energy to do more than merely exist, you must deal with the piles on piles of laundry that took you hours to move from your car to your floor. This is a task meant for a professional closet organizer but you will tackle it head on. The question is, “Are there even enough hangers in the world for all your Goodwill finds?”
3. Giving up on the laundry and resorting to a Netflix binge ***while laying in a pile of clothes***
Well that didn’t last long. You realized that it will probably take you all summer to find a place for all of those clothes and it isn’t worth it. Your piles of thrift store finds make a better pillow than they do actual clothing and the rest of the National Geographic show on deep sea life is now on Netflix. Put on your favorite pair of stretchy shorts and snuggle up in that pile of clothes we are coming for you deep sea jellyfish.
4. Feeling like your social life has died, wallowing in your loneliness
That documentary left you feeling empty after the seeing the deep sea life lost in a vast ocean, with no meaning. *Retweet* This is exactly how you feel. Your social life is just as dead as the dead sea shrimp who got eaten by the eel. Your friends are home, your friends in your hometown are in school still or are not moving back and you miss the way your social life was going a couple of weeks ago. Your heart rate is slowing with every passing moment. THERE IS NOTHING TO DO AND NO ONE TO SEE. Back to the laundry pile…
5. Spending an overwhelming amount of time on social media to stay connected to the people you met at school.
The Wi-Fi signal is strong on the home front, but not as strong as your stalking game. The apps are lined up, the passwords are saved, and you are ready to expend every social media resource to stay connected. Every person you have met in the past year better be ready to have their socks stalked off, and receive uber amounts of Snapchats. This is the only way to keep the fire of your newly found friendships going, or so it seems and they better get used to a daily “I miss ur face” text.
6. Over scheduling yourself to make up for missing your friends
You are starting to feel a little better about your relationships, but you need some face to face time. You pick up a new calendar from Target and you fill in every hour slot with something to do. You are meeting someone at 10:35 a.m. for brunch, 11:00 a.m. lunch with someone else and you promised that one person you would drive up to visit, so you gas up the car. The amount of time you can spend doing things seems endless. Repeat the mantra “I WILL SLEEP WHEN I AM DEAD!”
7. Picking up 10 new hobbies to fill up your time.
Suddenly you are now jack of all trades. You have no classes, so you have decided to put that energy into becoming the most interesting man in the world. You paint, you run, you sew, you take gymnastics, you get licensed to marry and learn how to juggle. You just have SO MUCH TIME,\ and anything is better than working on that pile of laundry.
8. Struggling to re-learn the rules of the house
You left your juggling balls on the kitchen table and you haven’t turned the light off in the bathroom for three days. YOUR PARENTS ARE TICKED. How are you supposed to return to the rules of the home that you have not lived in for almost a year? Will you ever remember to turn the light off after you leave the bathroom? Can your mom ever forgive you for neglecting the rules of the kitchen sink? The world may never know…
9. Finally being able to exist in your old residence
You are comfortable. You are no longer confused about where your family is keeping the toilet paper now and you are rocking living at home. It took a while but you are a part of the house again. Your room is becoming less disgusting and you are almost through that pile of laundry. This is what it is like to be a young adult at home, and its not that bad. #freefood
10. Reaching equilibrium. You are OK and school isn’t that far away.
You are OK with being home, but life at school is what you yearn for. You love your family, a lot, but its hard being home. Its a blessing to have a home to come, well, home to! Thank your Mom and Dad for their love and parenting but this hometown probably is not where you want to spend the rest of your life. AND PSA: SCHOOL IS NOT THAT FAR AWAY! You are actually somewhat thankful for the summer break being shorter than you thought it would be. YAYAY! See you soon dorm room!
