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5 Ways To Deal With College Homesickness

I think that everyone goes through it at least a little bit during your first year.

Nick Stanek

Sep 23, 2018

University of Delaware

5 Ways To Deal With College Homesickness

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Whether you're missing your friends, family, or just home in general, you aren't alone. There are lots of different ways to make sure that you can get fill that little bit of emptiness in your stomach that comes and goes every now and then.

1. FaceTime

Me, calling my mom at 2:00 AM.

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This is the easiest way to stay connected with everyone. It makes it feel like you're still right there with everybody. I have been constantly calling friends and family just to talk for a little bit. Even if I'm not feeling homesick, it's still nice just to stay connected to everyone.

2. Go to the gym.

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Nothing helps more with college stress than going to the gym and working out for a little bit. Just plug in you headphones, listen to your favorite music, and go at it for a while. Trust me, it will definitely help, even if you don't typically workout. Maybe your family will compliment you on your newly acquired muscles next time you talk to them, too.

3. Hardcore study.

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This might be the most controversial tip to prevent homesickness, but it can really help to get your mind off of the problem. Sometimes it's hard to study when you're missing home, but getting really immersed in schoolwork is not only what we're supposed to be doing, it keeps you focused on one thing. If you just lay around, you'll start to think about all the different things that you're missing.

4. Look at old pictures.

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I love looking back on old memories. This might make some people more homesick, but for a lot of us, this can actually keep it from getting worse by laughing at the good ole' times with your friends and family from home. What better way to deal with missing loved ones than looking at pictures of them?

5. Go out and have fun

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Obviously everyone has a different way to have fun, but regardless of what you like to do on the weekends, this is the best way to forget about home and what's making you sad. Making memories in a new place with new people is the first step to making this unfamiliar place start to feel like where you belong. Before long, you'll go home, and feel homesickness for your college town.

When you feel like this, it might suck in the moment, but just remember that this is what it feels like to grow as a person. We're all gonna be alright. Keep pushing through, you got this.

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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5 Ways To Deal With College Homesickness

I think that everyone goes through it at least a little bit during your first year.

1. FaceTime

2. Go to the gym.

3. Hardcore study.

4. Look at old pictures.

5. Go out and have fun

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Appreciation for some of life's most discredited pleasures.

1. Sun showers

2. Smiles

3. Tight hugs

4. Discovering new foods you like.

5. Laying in bed after a long day.

6. And being completely relaxed

7. "This reminded me of you"

8. Breakfast foods

9. Over-sized clothes

10. Contagious laughs

11. Car rides with that one person

12. Random (I miss you/ I love you) texts

13. The city at night

14. Surprises

15. Blanket cocoons

16. Good hair days

17. Really good coffee

18. Days where you're in a good mood naturally and for no particular reason

19. Conquering a fear

20. When they give you a lot of guac at Chipotle

21. Being so comfortable with someone that you can literally talk about anything

22. Home-cooked meals

23. Tattoo stories

24. Leaves changing color in fall

25. Butterflies in your stomach

26. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

27. When you can't stop laughing

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Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

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Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)