Home is where the Wi-Fi connects, home-cooked meals are made, family is around, and the showers are always clean. Although all those things are nice, however, college students have made their college town their home. We love our home; it’s where we grew up, it’s where most of our memories are made, it’s where we made mistakes and learned from them. However, I believe you can have more than one home, and I know most college kids will agree because from August to May our college becomes our home.
College is where your adventure starts, where you are able to make decisions, and where you make your first steps to your future. College becomes your home. You are on your own even though mom and dad are just a call away. You make mistakes, but you don’t just learn from them; you grow from them. You learn how to budget your grocery money, you learn how to survive off coffee when sleep just isn’t enough, you learn to let things and people go, and you learn how to be your own person.
College is where you find your forever friends, friends that you don’t know how you made it this far without them. These friends will be there through your ups and downs, through the late nights and early mornings. They will be there for you to laugh and to cry. They will push you to your very best and won’t let you settle for anything less than you deserve.
College is where you make so many memories and find out who you are to your core. College becomes your home not because you stay there so long but because this is where your life is. College reminds you of home although may it not be ideal, and you know this is where you are meant to be.
Home is where the heart is, and your heart can be in two places at once.
