1. Honeymoon stage
After being mentally and
emotionally drained by finals week, nothing sounds more exciting than going
home and crashing in your own bed. The excitement of sleeping until noon, free
laundry service, home cooked meals and showering without flip-flops on will
probably last for about a week or two.
2. The Holidays
You might have to spend a little more time with your family then you
would like, but it’s still nice to see everyone. As much as you hate getting
asked about grades and your future and significant others (or lack there of) by
family members you haven’t seen in ages, you try to take it in stride and focus
on all the good food and presents (a.k.a. the real reason for the season).
3. New Years
As Christmas lights slowly come down
and the excitement about all your new stuff starts to dwindle, you will
remember that yet another year is about to end. During this stage you might
have an existential crisis. If you're anything like me you might feel like you’re getting old, but you’re
still not doing anything significant with your life. You might set a couple new
years resolutions that sound great at the time, but you will forget about a
month from now. But, hey, New Year's is for celebrating not for pouting! So pop
some champagne and leave your worries in 2014.
4. High school flashback
At the beginning of
January you will probably start to realize that you have spent most of your
break doing absolutely nothing, or celebrating holidays, and you only have a
week before all your friends from home go back to school. You will try to fit
as many lunch dates and wine nights with your high school friends as possible.
But some people that ask you to hang out you might not be as excited to see...
5. Boredom
The exciting part of winter break is
over, all your friends have gone back to school and your parents are really
starting to drive you crazy. For some reason you're jealous of the people taking J-term classes. Ughhh take me back to Oxford.
6. Campus Hop
What better way to spend your three
extra weeks of break and to get away from your parents then to visit your
friends at other schools! You’ll take this time to road trip to your best
friend from home’s school and spend a weekend in their shoes. As much as you
love the change of scenery and being with your bestie, you feel out of place. Wearing leggings and a
sweater to go out on a Friday night just feels unnatural, and bartenders at
bars at other schools have no idea what a Redskin is, which quite honestly is a
tragedy and just makes you miss Oxford even more.
7. Recruitment realization
As the end of January
comes near you will realize that recruitment is in a few short weeks and you
can’t help but get excited about all the new babies. You will take this time to
craft a million things that your future perfect little or grand little will
absolutely love and will make all the final touches to make sure you are
dressed to impress during recruitment.
8. Time to go back
Finally time to head back to
Oxford and friends and your normal life. The idea of going back to classes will
momentarily stress you out, but you are just glad you made it through the
longest six weeks of your life.
