Coming home from college is not only an exciting experience, but it can also be a stressful one. As we college students are growing into older beings and changing as individuals, returning to our old roots brings on several different emotions. Returning to our old ways of life as new individuals calls on several challenges such as going from living with one roommate to a household of five. We tend to hold a high expectation as to how our visit home will go, but to our dismay our visits never tend to go as planned. Instead, more often than not, here's what happens.
1. Home doesn’t really feel like home anymore, but rather a familiar place where you once belonged.
2. Your parents are cool for the first few hours, and then they turn into annoying little siblings asking you 60 questions per minute.
3. You forget where the Tupperware is stored.
You don’t do your own laundry -- ever.
4. All of your plans of eating healthy while at home fly out the window when Mom starts to cook dinner.
5. Your dogs aren’t as excited to see you as you are to see them.
6. Your bedroom is just as messy as you left it.
7. Mom didn’t clean it when you were at school like you hoped she would.
8. You come home to an empty fridge disregarding your high hopes of coming home to a stacked house of goodies.
9. The wi-fi actually works!
10. Your neighbors talk to you, but it takes you a second to register the fact that it’s not a homeless man asking for 28 cents.
11. You walk downstairs to a sticky note with a list of chores to do while your parents are at work.
So much for a relaxing visit home.
12. You crave Beat the Clock, then go through withdrawals.
13. Your college fam Snapchats you and you cry because, God forbid, you’ve been apart for 48 hours.
14. You have no homework so you don’t know what to do with your life.
15. You go on a run because you don’t know what to do with your life now that you’re at home and not Beat the Clock.
16. You live in the same oversized sweatshirt for days on end.
17. You eat -- a lot.
18. You sleep for a healthy amount of hours and actually feel rejuvenated in the morning -- weird.
19. You reminisce on all of your old memories in every spot in your house -- like when you got your head stuck in the bannisters on the stairwell.
20. You drive around town just to drive on the old roads again.
21. You stare at an old picture of you hanging on the wall and try to compare it to your new looks with age.
22. “Since when did Mom start buying Colgate instead of Crest?”
23. You find so many stellar pieces of clothing your forgot about -- it’s basically Christmas morning.
24. You love your family and being home, but count down the minutes until you can go back to your college life.
25. You cry when you have to leave.
Because you have to go back to your sleep deprived, homework loaded, empty bank account college life.
