Everyone gets homesick at one point or another in their lives. Many experience homesickness during their college years, mostly in the first semester of being away from home. However, now it is summer and the feeling of being homesick is reversed; you miss your college home.
If you are at the right college, you will quickly find reasons and ways to make that small town your home. It's where your friends are, your favorite hang out spots are, and there's always something to do. If you do not miss your college town when you go home for the summer you might be at the wrong school.
College is a time for young adults to find who they are and where they belong in the world before entering into it. It is the last place where we are allowed to limit the responsibilities we will soon carry in the real world. We are supposed to enjoy ourselves and enjoy being young.
College is a time to stay up until 3 a.m. with your best friends driving around screaming the songs of your childhood because in those moments nothing else matters. When you are home for the summer, that is a lot harder to do because your friends are not one mile down the road or three doors down the hall.
"There is a time and place for everything, and it's called college."
Bill Cosby said this, and he is right. When you are in the right place, there are so many opportunities to take, room for mistakes to be made, and room for more friendships and memories that we know what to do with.
It is hard to leave those friends and fun times behind for three long months, but we know when we make it back we will be welcomed with open arms to the crazy place we call college.
