Call roommates. Buy laundry detergent. Order books. Buy parking permit. Facebook stalk people to make sure you don’t draw a blank on their names when you see them around campus again.

With summer coming to a close, I have found myself uncontrollably making lists – physical and mental – on things that need to get done before going back to school in August.

Oh yeah, I need to buy a new comforter, scour the parking lot and stores for quarters (got to pay for that laundry), and eat as much of mom's food as possible.

It’s amazing how an entire summer can pass, so carefree and not thinking about much of anything at all, and then several weeks before college it hits you, BAM. Once again you are bombarded by emails about payment plans, housing reminders, etc. You've been there, you know. It's time to face reality and remember this "summer living" is only your life for three months and it’s time to go back to college.

If you're anything like me, you've probably gone back and forth on how you feel about going back. Your emotions are an out of control teeter-totter as you enter into the many stages of going back to college.

First, you've grown restless at home and are ecstatic because you're going back to the place where you started to grow up and began figuring life out for yourself. Not only that, but you get to live with and be surrounded by people who are your age again. ALSO, your closest friends are once again going to be in a five-minute proximity to you and not states away. Long story short, you can't contain your excitement.

Then it hits you, you didn't do half of the things you had planned to do all summer. All of the friends who you had made plans to hang out with after finals were over and you were home, but then summer happened and you never actually got to hang out. You never made it to the gym all summer, but sure as heck made it to Sonic for their half price shakes after eight. Oh, and all those crafty things you were going to make for your dorm room? Sitting neatly in their Pinterest boards, still waiting. That's when you realize...

You're excitement of going back to school soon wins over once again and you're back to be stoked beyond belief. Soon it will be move in week where you'll get to hang out with friends every day with no homework load looming over your weekend - what a dream.

But you're also leaving behind so many good things back home; you're leaving friends who you've known since you could crawl, your mom's cooking, your bedroom, your comfy queen sized bed, your dog, and did I say mom's cooking? You've just had three months of freedom, no homework to speak of and you want to go back?

That's when you remember,

No matter who you are, you cannot deny the fact that going back to school is always a time of mixed emotions, but in the end you never regret going back.

Just give yourself time to adjust.