5 Things You'll Miss One Week After Break
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5 Things You'll Miss One Week After Break

It's hard to adjust after being home for almost a month.

Emma Daubert
Jan 22, 2019
Pennsylvania State University
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After being in your hometown with your family for almost a month, adjusting to the Spring Semester can be rough. It is easy to feel just as homesick as you were when you first arrived in the Fall. Coming back to a tiny dorm room means leaving behind many luxuries that will be missed a lot in the first couple days, weeks maybe, including:

1. Home-cooked meals

After having hot home-cooked meals sat in front of you for over a month it is hard to work up an appetite when standing in line for the buffet. No food can beat a meal that your mom prepared from scratch, especially when you have the choice between the same dry chicken breast or bland white rice every single night. College food gets real old real quick, and if you choose to eat in your room for the night the choices are slim— Ramen Noodles or mac n' cheese?

2. Your own bed

There's nothing like waking up in your own room and in your own bed, which most likely isn't a twin size bed that is as hard as a rock. You're used to your own bed where you can roll around and be swaddled by fluffy blankets.

3. Your dogs/pets

It's hard to leave a house where your dogs are part of your family and have to be without them every day. It's sad to think that your mood can be changed immensely by seeing someone with a dog on the other side of the road while walking home from class. Dogs make you happy, it's the simple things in college.

4. Hot showers

Not only are the showers in the dorms not hot, but you also have to stand in a tiny stall and try not to touch any of the grimy walls. Also, have fun finding room to shave your legs. The entire showering process is just exhausting. Sometimes you just want to shower when you want to shower, but you have to wait till they're empty first... and oh, don't forget your shower shoes!

5. Sleeping in

On break, you have all the time in the world. If you want to sleep in till noon, do it. If you want to lay in bed all day, do it. Alarms and classes don't exist. Finals are exhausting, and you can finally catch up on all the sleep you have been missing. It is refreshing and much needed, but it only lasts so long. Soon enough you are setting alarms and waking up when it's still dark. It was nice while it lasted.

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