Leading up to winter break, we daydream of what it will be like, reveling in all the free time we will have, away from professors and those long all-nighters. Unfortunately, winter break doesn’t usually turn out to be what we imagine it to be…

First, that sports car you had one your list does not appear in the driveway Christmas Day...

In fact, barely anything on your list makes it under the Christmas tree. Since you're older, your parents have run out of ideas for gifts for you, and they usually just consist of new socks and things you don't necessarily need... or want.

Even if you're not Jewish, it's become somewhat of a tradition to eat Chinese food on Christmas Eve.

When you arrive in your hometown, you realize you have so much free time that you actually don’t know what to do with it! You totally forget everything you daydreamed about doing…

So you start to daydream about your college life and how all you want is to be back on campus talking to your friends about everything and pretty much anything.

You also realize that you don't have any plans for New Years Eve, until 8 p.m. that night when you get a text about a party.

When you see your whole family for Christmas and they refuse to stop bombarding you with questions about college, it's not like anything changed since you were home for Thanksgiving.

Speaking of Thanksgiving, you eat more at Christmas Dinner than you did at Thanksgiving.

You realize way too late that you could have actually spent your winter break at some island with your friends, so then you start planning the best spring break plan you can possibly muster up.

You get so lazy that you don't want to do anything but sleep all day and watch Netflix...

But its not like college dorms. Here, your mom constantly comes into your room, bugging you to get out of bed and get moving.

You realize then that you only will be able to have a Netflix marathon when you are back a college and ironically stressing to study for two exams and write three papers all together.

You have so much time now that your mom kicked you out of bed but you still don't have time to catch up with your high school friends.

And finally, when the end of the break come around and you wonder where all the time went, that's when you realize everything you wanted to do... and everything you didn't have "time" to do.

But you know those long nights of Netflix marathons and chatting till the late hours with friends will wait until you get back to college- when it is so much easier to accomplish, despite all the class work you have.