Going home for the weekend is one of the best things to do while in college. If you are lucky enough to live relatively close to school, I highly recommend taking a weekend to yourself and going home. Freshman year, I found that there was a large stigma to going home. The main question I would get when I told people that I was going home on a random weekend was, “Why would you leave campus when here you can go out and party and drink, where as at home you just sit on your couch and talk to your parents”? Back then this question always made me feel bad about leaving campus for a few days and I would in turn have major FOMO while I was home. Looking back now, however, I don’t know why I ever felt that way.
Going home is AWESOME. There are no responsibilities when you go home. You don’t have to do your laundry (if your mom offers to do it for you). You don’t have to sleep on hard small bed. You get to lay on your couch all day and watch random TV shows. You get to play with whatever pet you have and send snaps of him or her to your friends and make them jealous. You get to eat food that doesn’t come from a dining hall. You have access to the family car and can drive all over God's green earth doing random things. There is nothing wrong with going home for the weekend and honestly it provides a much-needed break to the stress and the schedule that is going to college.
There is nothing better than escaping campus and giving your brain a few days to recuperate after a long week. College is stressful and you have to be on 100% of the time. There is no escape from school in college because you live right next to the building where you are tortured in political philosophy in twice a week, for example. You see the same people everyday and hear the same sort of stories and worries and complaints day in and day out. If you are an athlete, like I am, there is no escaping practice or extra workouts. You live, eat, and breathe all things school in college. Yes, college does provide ways of blowing off steam like partying and drinking, but what if nothing is going on that weekend? Then you are stuck in your dorm room once again having a Netflix marathon.
I know that not everyone is able to get home on a random weekend because of traveling restraints and other obstacles and I am lucky that I live close enough to campus that it is very easy for me to go home, even for only an afternoon, but if you need that much needed break, seriously consider going home. Or even going to a friends house and mooching off of their parents. That’s what friends are for anyway right?
