College students tend to have a complicated relationship with going home. You get to see your mom and play with your dog but unless you're still close with your high school friends or have a lot of exciting things to do in your hometown, there are so many reasons why going home for break is the worst.
1. You leave something important at school
It doesn't matter how many packing lists you make, you will inevitably leave something of great importance behind at school and something even more important at home when you head back.
2. Everything closes at nine
Unless you are somehow lucky enough to live in a college town, you're probably used to nothing except Walmart being open after nine.
3. Your room isn't yours anymore
Maybe you're lucky enough that your mom has preserved your old room like a museum of your childhood, but for most of us we come home to a "guest room" full of storage boxes and rejected furniture.
4. Your parents treat you like a kid again
I don't know what it is, but when you step through the front door, parents automatically revert back to how treating you like you're in high school again. Curfew and chores are no longer a thing of the past and you're back to bargaining with your parents to stay out an extra hour.
5. You get judged for sleeping until noon
...and staying up till 4 in the morning. Sometimes we forget our sleep schedules aren't in accordance with how the rest of the world runs. College student's sleep schedules are rarely healthy and our parents love to point it out.
6. You see everyone from high school
It is a scientifically proven fact that any college student while at home for break will run into at least one ex, three teachers, and four random kids you graduated with while on a boredom-induced Target run.
7. You will have to answer a million questions
"How's school? Are you still dating that guy? What's your major?" Everyone you see will have at least 4-5 uncomfortable questions they will expect you to answer with eloquent answers of straight A's and plans for marriage.
8. You will miss your friends
You never really realize how much you miss your college friends till you're a million miles away from them and you can't just borrow their cute clothes or go on a sonic run anytime you want.
9. Home isn't home anymore
This is probably the saddest one of all but every college student knows what I'm talking about. There will be a time when you reference "home" as your college and realize home doesn't feel like home anymore. But the home you grew up in will always have a special place in your heart, and no matter how much you miss your college town.
