By the end of the semester, we all get a little homesick and are ready to go home. But after a couple days, you start to realize all of the things you actually miss about school.

1) Living with a lot of people

As horrific as it seemed when you went away to school, to have to live with dozens of people, now you’ve gotten used to it, and you actually miss it. Living in on-campus housing, you’re literally never alone. There’s always someone around, someone to go to eat with you, or just someone to hang out with. You don’t have to spend much time alone. Once you go home for the break, you have to put forth some effort and actually make plans with people, and leave your house to drive to them. Or just stay home alone and watch Netflix --- your choice.

2) How easily accessible everything is

College campuses are meant to be convenient. They’re meant to have everything you need in one place, or very closely together. So, when you go home and have to actually drive to get to places or to do certain things, it gets annoying pretty fast and you start to not want to do much.

3) Food always being available

Whether you go to a huge school

like Penn State or a smaller university like Widener, you always have something to do. Campuses make sure that students have activities available to them just about every day of the semester. Whether it be a movie night, fitness class, free giveaways, or a party; there’s always something to do. This basically means that you’re never bored, you can always find something to keep you occupied. When you go home, and you’re from a pretty quiet town like me, there’s really nothing to do, unless you want to travel a bit and go into the city. Curing boredom over break takes so much extra effort

4) Always having something to do

Whether you go to a huge school like Penn State or a smaller university like Widener, you always have something to do. Campuses make sure that students have activities available to them just about every day of the semester. Whether it be a movie night, fitness class, free giveaways, or a party; there’s always something to do. This basically means that you’re never bored, you can always find something to keep you occupied. When you go home, and you’re from a pretty quiet town like me, there’s really nothing to do, unless you want to travel a bit and go into the city. Curing boredom over break takes so much extra effort

5) Your college friends

By the end of the semester, we all say how much we want to go home, or how homesick we are, and can’t wait to see our friends and family back home. But then we get home and we start to miss all the crazy and amazing friends we made at school. The part that sucks the most is your school best friend’s home could be hundreds of miles away. The break is only halfway over, and I can honestly say I already miss the people on my floor and my other friends on campus. But I guess living with people for months at a time has that effect on you.

Thankfully winter break is only a little over a month long.

So soon we’ll all be back in our little school bubbles, and get back to all the

things we missed…. Until summer comes and we go through it all again.