You just finished freshmen year and odds are you cried in your dorm room for a real hot minute.

This year was one of the best years you could have ever imagined, even though you know for a fact that you faced one too many trials. You had a few too many hard nights and you considered going home one weekend and never coming back.

But you stayed.

You finished your first year of college and it was wild, so now you're going home and you don't think it will be any different but nothing will be the same.

Yes, you have gone home before and you probably already saw that things just aren't the same.

Going to the house you made some great memories and many life-changing decisions with a suitcase is weird, but it gets weirder when you're back for two-three months after you've spent a whole school year in a brand new place you now call home.

So now, here is what you need to know about your first summer back.

It won't be like any summer you've had before.

You may have friends in your hometown, but you have to remember that unless you went to the same college and stayed friends they have new friends and even if you kept up with each other the path they are on is not even close to the one y'all were on together.

You're about to have to unpack clothes and shoes and put them BACK in your dresser and closet, in a place where they always were. But in a few short months, you'll be packing it all up again.

Your parents are going to notice that their child is not the same child they left in your freshman dorm room on move-in day. Now, you're a whole new person, with a few new experiences and probably twice as much heartbreak.

You're going to have to catch your parents up on your life because even if you talked to them every week, they missed almost every single huge part of your life for a whole school year.

You're going to have to make your room yours again and get used to sleeping in an actual bed and not the things colleges try to call beds.

Your life is about to look so different and you aren't going to have any idea how to make it normal again.

Those college friends are going hours away and odds are you're not going to see them until you move back to school in the fall. Every single day you'll text and maybe even call for the first few days or weeks, but eventually, you'll realize it just isn't the same.

Eating lunch at home and not in your school's union or cafeteria will be the strangest thing you could ever imagine missing, but you will.

What you need to know the most is that your childhood home is not going to feel like home anymore, but it will always be your safe place.