With the Christmas season comes the end of finals, and a few weeks at your parents' house away from school and all of the pressures that come with it. Coming home from college can be a strange experience, with your family having changed since you’ve been gone and your role in the house becoming different than before. But Christmas brings with it a special warmth to coming home, with some added perks.
6. Christmas Food
There’s nothing better than coming home exhausted from finals and drowning yourself in cookies, cakes, peppermint everything, hot chocolate, ice cream, bread pudding, pie, and all of the other food lying around the house.
5. Christmas Decorations
Home usually feels like home because of the way it’s decorated, but Christmas season brings that to a whole new level. From decorations you bought recently in a special place, to a stocking that was knitted by your Dad’s great Aunt’s sister-in-law, nostalgia greets you at every corner.
4. Pets
You get to see your pets when you’re home, and cuddle them as much as you want for the entire break. And sometimes they are even dressed as Christmas characters. You can’t really ask for anything better than that.
3. Free Food
You can eat as much as you want and it's free!!! You can take a break from the dining hall and Top Ramen, and still save money.
2. Free Laundry
Paying for laundry is such a pain. It’s never in a convenient place, you never have enough quarters, and usually the washer and dryer ruin your clothes in the process. When you come home, you can wash each item of your clothing individually and you won’t have to share with that many people, or pay a cent!
1. Having a free schedule
Christmas break is the ultimate vacation from school. You usually get almost a month off. That’s enough time to catch up on all of the sleep that you missed last quarter, do a detox, start learning a language, and binge-watch every show you want. It’s truly the most wonderful time of year.
So, enjoy your Christmas break, eat lots of food, relax as much as possible, and prepare for the next quarter in real Christmas fashion!
