By the end of the spring semester, most of us have mixed emotions about heading home. Ready for the school work to end, but dreading leaving all of our friends. We finish out our finals and return back to our respected hometowns, excited to see our pets, families and old friends but soon it all gets old and were ready to head back to our second home.

When we get back we’re all stuck in this awkward time frame. We are all ready for break but the weather and time of the year are not. Usually, we get home around the beginning of May where the weather still resembles spring and friends back at home still have responsibility. So no swimming pools, or beaches, just sitting at home with nothing to do.

By the time the nice weather does come around, we have our responsibilities. Summer jobs and short weekends for fun. We don’t always love the jobs we have to work but need them to make money for our expenses to come in the new school year. While some of us would rather be on a beach we slave away at these summer jobs loving the money we make but dreading getting up and going every morning.

At this point, we start to miss our college friends more than words can describe. We make short visits and have facetime calls to try and make the heartache less but it’s just not the same as seeing your favorite people all the time and being just a couple minutes down the street from them.

If it were up to us, we’d stay at school year-round. But let’s be honest, this time away will always be much needed by the end of each school year. All we have to do is remember the stress of finals and all the school work and suddenly we’re more than happy to spend these 3 months at home.