After the academic year is finally over, we college kids cannot wait to move home. There will be home-cooked meals, your own comfortable bed, your pets, laundry you don't have to pay for and most importantly cabinets stocked full of food! The thought of all this makes summer the one thing you look forward to. Moving home from college and just being home sounds like pure bliss. But there may just be a few things that you haven't thought of. Things that might make college sound more appealing.
Curfews
Throwback to the days of high school when your parents gave you a curfew. You just have to smile and nod because you are, in fact, living under your parent's roof and their rules go. So who cares that you partied until three am every weekend or weekday (whatever night the drink specials were) while you were away at college, 10pm it is. Sure. I mean I didn't even think about going out until 10 at school, but yep, their rules. See ya at 10, Dad...
50 Question Game
Yep throwin' it back to the good ol' glory days once again. Before you go out with your friends you get bombarded with questions like you are sitting in front of a computer screen trying to answer as many questions as you can for that timed online final you forgot about. "Where you going?" "Who are you going with?" "How many guys are going to be there?" "Take your jacket off, let me see what you're wearing." "(insert name here), that is not something you will leave my house wearing. Why don't you just go put on a t-shirt and some jeans?" "What time do you think you'll be back?" "You aren't going to be drinking are you?" "You don't know what time you will be back? Well then you can be back at 10pm so there isn't any guessing."
......need I say more?
Chores
Most people can think back on the days of their teenage years being given a list of chores to do while Mom and Dad were at work. Well, welcome home for the summer! You magically have a chore list again. Thanks, Mom. Nothing to make you feel like you are 12 again like a list of chores to complete before your parent's get home from work. Yay! Because we weren't capable of cleaning the house without a list? And not to mention the fact that you too have a job, but yes, the chores!
Old Friends
The one that takes us all by surprise, the number of high school buddies we still have on our friends list. You come home from an exhausting year of partying and studying and think things will go back to how they were last summer but quickly realize that will never happen. People move on, change, distance themselves from their past and lose contact with their best friends from high school. So hold on to the memories, hold onto the friendships you have from high school, they may never be the same. Hold the new friendships from college even closer. The friends you make in college will be the friends standing by your side at your wedding one day. Either way, old or new, always make time for your friends while you are home for the summer.
Hold on tight to the fun, endless freedom you have during the school year. It will be squandered by the good ol' rules from your parents. They probably aren't trying to make your summer miserable, but I promise you will think that at least once. So cheer to the chores, the curfews, and the questions! Let's do this.
