You're not from here and you feel like everyone knows it. Here are 15 things that happen when you're an out-of-state student.

1. You can’t go home on the weekends.

And if you do, it’s a huge process and takes up much more time than, “Oh, I guess I’ll go home today.” It doesn’t’ work like that. You get low key jealous when your friend gets to go home...again. But you pretend to be happy for them when they talk about seeing their family.

2. You hear constantly “if you’re from ____, why do you go here?”

Seriously, I cannot count how many times I have heard this. Apparently, “this is a good school” is not a good enough answer.

3. All your friends get to go see their family throughout the year.

That dreaded weekend when ALL of your friends and roommates go home and you feel as though you’re the only one alive on campus.

4. You understand the struggle of out of state tuition.

Money, money, money.

*FAFSA with your out of state tuition be like*

5. The struggle of flying home during the holidays –and flying back.

The worst time of year to fly and YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO GET HOME.

6. Speaking of flying, packing all of your belongings in your suitcases to fly to school and move in.

You’re only allowed 50 pounds…pretty much your basic nightmare for ALL of your belongings.

7. Your Delta miles increase every time you go home.

Basically you have bragging rights for being a “frequent flyer” for the rest of your life.

8. That feeling you get when it’s the first time you’ve seen your parents in over three months.

HOME SWEET HOME!

9. That feeling you get when it’s the first time you’ve seen your dog.

Ahhh….happiness.

10. You freak out when someone else is from your state.

This is a major key to the start of a new friendship.

11. You freak out more when someone is from a city that you’ve heard of in your state.

“OMG I LIVE NEAR THERE!” Probably the most exciting statement you will say to any of your friends for a while.

12. If you’re from a small town, trying to explain where it is in proximity to a city they’ve probably heard of.

People in Michigan have it easy; they can just throw up their hand and point to where they are from. However you're over here trying to explain something that they won't understand anyway. “You know San Francisco?.... I live like an hour away from that.” Easier said than done.

Or worse, when you go home and you tell someone where you go to school and they say, “Where is that?”

So. Annoying.

13. People take for granted how often they can see their dogs.

You can only see your dog during breaks and holidays and they are lucky that they can drive home and see them whenever they want.

14. When you go home, you have two cultural influences under your wing to bring up in conversation.

You essentially live in two states and once and you get to show off your intelligence to those people in your hometown who have never left your home state.

15. You grow as a person in more ways than one.

Without the constant dependence on your parents, you watch yourself grow and mature more than you would have if you had gone to a school in state.