Every college student knows what happens when the weather gets hotter. Sure, summer is getting closer, but that also means school is coming to an end. If you're one of the lucky ones, you're staying in your college town alongside most of your friends. If you're not, then you're going back home and enduring the three months known as summer break. Of course it's going to be fun, just as long as you don't dwell on the fact that you're split up from all the new friends you made at college.
1. At first, the alone time is much appreciated!
You now have enough to time to do whatever your heart desires. You can sleep when you want, be loud when you want and take long showers without being told when to get out. The freedom and the personal time is great until you remember that this “me time” will last for three months.
2. Your most preferred voices of reason are gone.
Who’s going to encourage you to go out when you have something to do really early the next morning? Who’s going to go shopping with you and impulsively buy boxes of taquitos, mini cheeseburgers and clothes you can’t afford? And who is going to tell you who you should and shouldn’t take home that night!?
3. No matter how hard you try to explain your inside jokes to your friends back home, there are some jokes they’ll never understand.
You have so many memories with your college friends that you want to tell your home friends about, but eventually, you just have to accept that it was one of those “you had to be there” moments. They’ll think you’re crazy the more you try to explain it.
4. You spend an embarrassing amount of time texting.
Whether it be a huge group message or multiple individual conversations, you have a lot of people to keep up with. You’re texting each other every minute of the day to stay up to date with all the gossip and to send funny cat pictures.
5. You may accidentally slip up and call one of your friends by the wrong name.
You didn’t mean to! You’ve just been surrounded by a different group of people for the past year, and you’re so used to having the same group of friends around.
6. You update each other every night, if not every six hours, on how much you miss each other.
Just to make sure they haven’t forgotten about you.
7. You bombard each other with unnecessary SnapChats.
Who else would appreciate all the videos of you singing in the car or your selfies with the dog face filter?
8. You’ve planned a hundred road trips just to go visit each other.
You probably won’t even have the chance to take half of these trips, but planning them in your spare time makes you feel better about being away from each other and even makes the time pass faster. Well, kind of. The time still drags.
9. You cannot wait to be reunited with your best friends in your favorite place.
As much as you love home, it isn’t the same as college. No matter how homesick you were at the end of school, by summer's end, you’ll be ready to be back by your best friends’ sides, taking on college together.
