Winter break, as fun and freeing as it may seem, is always accompanied by a plethora of awkward and unwanted questions from family, uncomfortable yet necessary high school reunions, and way to much free time to stress about the upcoming quarter. If you think you're alone in your winter break struggle, I promise, you're not!
1. Unavoidable questions
Do you have a boyfriend? (You really should put yourself out there more, people usually find their spouses in college!)
2. Absence Of A Regular Social Life
You forget how simple it was having all your friends go to two or three schools. When everyone you know goes to different schools with different breaks, good luck planning something as simple as a lunch date.
3. Lack Of Clothes
Even though you likely spent the entirely of three Gossip Girl episodes deciding which clothes would make the cut, you find yourself deeply missing that one cozy black sweater and those brown ankle boots that you thought you could go without for three weeks. Turns out you couldn't, and living out of an under packed suitcase/resorting to your old high school sweatshirts every day is your only option.
4. Money Problems
Pro: You get a lot of cash from your family and friends and sometimes people you haven't even met before but have seen in the comments of your mom's detailed and lengthy Facebook posts.
Con: You forget what its like to not live on a budget and spend it all in one day at Free People. Oops?
5. Emails From Future Professors
What's a girl got to do to for just one day at the beach with an organic acai bowl without receiving two consecutive emails from the sociology professor you haven't even met yet? I mean really? You think I'm gonna drop the world and book it to the library to purchase three textbooks? Really? No sir, I will be buying those 12 minutes before class starts, thank you very much.
6. Reimmersion Into Society
Its the little things in life that you miss when you live in a small college town where the primary source of entertainment are overly-crowded frat parties. I mean seriously, you forget how fun it is to go to the movies, DRIVE A CAR, shop at stores other than Forever 21, and make your own food.
7. Feeling Like A Ghost
Surprisingly enough, many people forget that you attend school hundreds if not thousands of miles away, and that, no, you weren't there for that big family dinner, you're actually not familiar with the funny thing that happened to grandpa at the beach, and that you weren't aware that your great uncle twice removed passed away. Go figure.
8. Forgetting That Underage Drinking Is Illegal
In college, no one is going to think twice about you downing a beer or pouring yourself a glass of cheap wine. But suddenly at home, when you're way too excited to drink on Christmas Eve, your family starts to doubt your sobriety and you forget that casual drinking is, in fact, illegal.
