Stepping foot into your hometown after spending nine amazing months in college will leave you with an uncanny feeling. Flashback nine months earlier, you were packing up your room for a new adventure. A place where you could hang out with your friends until the early morning hours or eat as much pizza as your heart desired. Overall in these nine months, you have experienced freedom like never before. However amazing college is, you do end up coming home for three months of summer break. In these three months, you start to realize that your hometown is not your home anymore.
The first couple of weeks is a time when you are recovering from all of the all-nighters that you pulled during finals week. It’s also a time during which you can be found lying in your bed sleeping, or watching Netflix. Your parents are generally the nicest at this point because they are so happy to have their baby home from college. Don’t let this kindness fool you; once final grades are posted, you will constantly hear the words “you didn’t study” or “what were you doing with your time”.
The one major thing that made coming home for the summer worth it was being back in my house. Receiving home cooked meals after spending months eating dining hall food is the best feeling. Also not having to share a bathroom with twenty other girls is amazing as well, no more hair clogging the shower drain! Throughout the summer, you just appreciate all of the amenities of your home that you don’t have back at school.
Being home for the summer you try to reconnect with the high school friends that you lost contact with, hoping to pick back up where you left off. You soon realize the reason why you lost contact in the first place. Personally, I’ve only kept up with a few friends from high school, the others not so much. Let’s face it, you are not the same person that you were before, you’ve changed. You end up missing the new friends that you left behind at college, eagerly counting down the days until you are all reunited on campus again.
Even though you assume you can come back to your hometown and it won’t be different, you are wrong. Everything is different because college has changed you into a person who does not have time for basic hometown drama. Don’t worry fellow college students, August will be here before you know it.