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Why Thanksgiving Break Is Amazing For College Students

It's all fun and games until you realize what you've missed.

Addie Soja
Nov 24, 2015
University of North Carolina
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Why Thanksgiving Break Is Amazing For College Students
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We have all waited for this break. Fall break was a teaser for Thanksgiving Break, and while fall break was great, Thanksgiving Break is going to be amazing. College has been fun, and the semester is coming to a close. Soon we will be stuck at home for five whole weeks, and we may or may not survive the reunion with the craziness of our family. As much as we would all love to re-experience the infamous LDOC (last day of classes), we are really just so excited for Thanksgiving Break and trying to get through the last few days before we head back and get a few days in that place called home. So what exactly makes Thanksgiving Break so great?

1. The Food

By the end of the semester, your friends have to practically drag you out of your dorm to the dining hall to use the last of your meal plan. Thanksgiving Break is the best time to stuff yourself (literally) with all the best food your family cooks for this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving.

2. Reuniting With Your Pets

Thanksgiving Break is the perfect time to stop spending hours watching the best dog videos on YouTube and instead spend hours with your pets at home. Can’t come up with something to be thankful for? First of all, check yourself -- there is always something to be thankful for. Secondly, be thankful for your beloved pets!

3. Driving

I am so happy I don’t have to drive on campus. Finding parking spots, having people jump in front of your car -- not something I miss. But by the time we get home for Thanksgiving, we are so ready to get in our own car and drive, even if it is just to Starbucks.

4. Your Room

There really is something to be said about sleeping in your own room. It is an amazing feeling, and you really don’t know what you’ve been missing until you go home.

5. A Break From Colleging And Adulting

Whatever age you are, colleging and adulting is hard stuff. Sometimes we just need a break. Thanksgiving break is the best time to take a break and not college for a few days.

6. Having Your Laundry Done For You

If you are lucky, maybe your parents will be wonderful and do your laundry for you over Thanksgiving break. Even if they don’t, you’ll have better washers and dryers to do your laundry.

7. Hometown Friends

It’s always nice to see friends from home, but it doesn't always work with different break timings. So when Thanksgiving break comes around, maybe, just maybe, schedules will line up and old friendships will be reunited.

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