It’s been a fantastic break. You’ve spent quality time with family, loved ones, friends from home, the family pet, but you’re secretly itching to go back. It’s probably been the amount of rules you forgot/always forget about when you go home. These are only some signs that you’re ready to head back to campus.
1. You’ve already started packing, or almost done packing.
The anticipation has been more than consuming you. On a scale from one to 10 you’re at a 15 with how prepared you are to head back. You’ve probably overpacked, but you don’t care because you are almost back.
2. You’ve been texting friends from campus more and more as the time approaches.
You left about a month ago and at the beginning texted your friend’s campus friends almost every day. That might have dwindled around mid break but as time draws near you are texting everyday with anticipation, making plans already.
3. You’ve been checking the class schedule for class rosters to see if you have any friends in the same class.
You’re probably lying if you say you haven’t done this. In fact, you probably checked early during break but you’re checking every day now until it gets posted, you NEED to know if you’ll sit alone or with a friend in class.
4. You live vicariously through people already on campus.
Yes, there are people already on campus, whether they are there for a retreat, training, work, or for fun you’re very jealous and either creep on their Facebook pages or Snapchat to see what you will be coming back to in under a week.
5. You’re overly excited to attend whatever popular sports your campus has, win or lose.
There’s nothing like being AT a game day on campus with all other students, sure celebrating with parents in your living room can be fun, but it’s just a different experience. Time to get back into the stadium or arena and yell until you lose your voice, cheering your team on.
6. When someone asks you if you’re ready to go back, you get overly excited.
They probably remember when you got back looking all sad, tired and exhausted. You have had all break to recuperate and stress is the last thing on your mind, but you don’t pay any mind, you tell them you’re 110 percent ready to go back.
7. You’ve done everything you can do at home.
You have done everything there is to do for fun at home, with restrictions, and it’s circled around more than twice. Movies, bowling, basements, parks; it’s all boring now and you need your college town more than you thought you did.
8. You’re tired of double takes.
You have seen illusions of friends from campus you thought were in line behind you at Walgreens. You thought you saw an athlete at the pizza joint, but it wasn’t, and it was a little awkward.
9. Some of your friends from home have already started to head back or have already been back to their own colleges.
You had “bye” hangouts, dinners, or any kind of social gathering for the friends that left already and you are getting more and more anxious as more and more people leave. WILL YOU BE THE LAST ONE?
10. You’ve refreshed every single form of social media out there several times, over and over.
You’ve even sank low enough to check Venmo, maybe even like a transaction here and there. What else is there to do when you don’t have to study or read for a class, of course you’re not complaining.
11. Your Netflix binging has gone out of control.
There is most likely a medical term for how much Netflix you have been watching, and your family knows you have a problem. No one blames you; however, how else are you going to pass the time? Productively? HAHAHA.
12. You can’t handle another awkward interaction with people you went to high school with.
It’s a little rough when you see someone you either used to be super good friends with and no longer talk to. Someone you used to be super close with, including their parents who you will 100 percent bump into at the grocery store, or someone you never talked to but you knew of each other's existence. Time to go back.
All in all, being home was great. You spent quality time with family, friends, pets. You maybe even visited your old high school, which brought back great or traumatic memories. But alas, you are so close to being back to your second home, with all your friends, and you should be ready to make some fantastic memories. Happy spring semester.
