New beginnings are always great. New faces, new customs, and all new habits. Your first semester of college is no different. You learn so much in just a matter of four months: how to study for exams, how to balance your social life and academics, and how to do your laundry. It is sometimes more than you had planned for, but it's all worth it in the end.
Being away from your family for a long period of time for the first time in your life can be difficult. You're used to your brothers being annoying, your dad always wanting to know where you are, and your mom always nagging you to clean your room, but that's all out the window now. You're an adult in the eyes of everyone around you. You are now responsible for anything you do and daddy can't come save you at the police station anymore. Some college students never get used to it and they become homesick their first semester, which is why the sound of 'winter break' is so comforting to some.
Some people become couch potatoes while others work from the day they get home until the day they go back to school. However, you still don't have any papers to write or exams to study for, which is always the bright side!
Then reality starts to settle in, and everyone realizes that they have to go back for spring semester. When you do go back from winter break, after receiving your fall semester grades, you realize what you did and didn't do right. You acknowledge all of the things that you could do to improve and you pat yourself on the back for all of the wonderful things you accomplished. There's always room for improvement and that's a known fact. With all new classes and professors, it's a perfect way to start fresh and really give your all if you didn't first semester. Even if you did give your all first semester, that still means you have to strive for even better.
As the new semester creeps up on us, college students can't help but think about all the Netflix they can't watch and all the papers they're going to have to start writing. But it also means you will be reunited with all your friends yet again. Whether it's the girls down the hall or your fraternity brothers, it will make you feel whole again. Even though you will no longer be surrounded by your family or have freedom to lay in your bed all day, you have something to look forward to: reunions.
