When I first moved into my dorm back in August, I hadn’t made too many new friends. Classes hadn’t started yet, so I spent my days FaceTiming friends from back home. My roommates were all rushing, so they were busy with sorority recruitment for a while. They were some of the only people I had met and become friends with since I moved in. This was when I started binge watching "Grey’s Anatomy." I didn’t have anything else to do.

I really regretted not rushing a sorority at this point. My roommates had met so many people throughout the process and were all about to have so many new friends once they got in their sororities. I knew a few people on my floor and I only knew a few people from my high school, but I wasn’t close with many of them well enough to hang out with. Clubs hadn’t started yet either, so I didn’t really have an opportunity to get to know many people. I didn’t hate college, I just didn’t have many friends yet and I didn’t know my way around campus too well either.

One day I had watched God knows how many episodes of Grey’s while my roommates were all busy with sorority commitments. I called my family while they were in the car going to the beach for the day back home in New Jersey. I was on speaker and when I said I had been watching "Grey’s Anatomy" all day, both of my parents told me, “we’re kicking you out of your dorm”.

Okay, so this really wasn’t as bad as you think it was. They told me to go walk around campus for a half hour so I could start to get a feel for everything. I left my dorm and started to connect where many things on campus were. I hadn’t been outside at all that day except to go to the closest dining hall to grab food. It felt good to know how to get to different places on campus and to get to explore.

I am glad my parents kicked me out of my dorm because it gave me an opportunity to feel that I was finally home.