Don't get me wrong, I love college. I couldn't ask for anything better than my home away from home with my friends that I consider family. It's around the mid-point of first semester and midterms are making their way back into our lives. Although times may be tough, and you are struggling to get your priorities straight, don't think twice about going home for at least 24 hours. Here's why!

1. Parents

Who better to welcome you home than your mom, dad, siblings, or grandparents. When you walk through that front door there will be an immense amount of love that fills the room.

2. Dog

Let's be real, everything would be just as great if you were only greeted by your dog and spent quality time with them the whole time you were home.

3. Home cooked meals

Take advantage when you can go home, sit with your family, and have a meal that isn't frozen food heated up in the kitchen of your dining hall. There's nothing like some home cooked spaghetti and meatballs.

4. Bed

This is completely self explanatory.

5. Shower water pressure

This is huge. There's no way you can go back home and not want to take at least an hour long hot shower. You get adjusted to the shower at school that has extremely low water pressure and sporadic bursts of hot water, so when you come home you realize what you're missing out on at school. The shower at home is the best feeling ever.

6. Your favorite breakfast restaurant/coffee shop

One of my favorite things is being able to wake up and get the world's best coffee and pancakes at my local breakfast restaurant up the street. It's one of a kind, and their hash browns will always hold a special place in my heart.