We are all so excited that finals are over, and the endless hours of studying and stressing about the semester is over. The only thought on your mind is how good it is going to feel to lay on the beach and not worry about school, but that isn't the reality of what happens when you go home for summer. We all know that it feels good being home and being with your family, but we also know that as soon as we leave campus we are going to miss our college family. When summer comes everyone goes their separate ways, most of us have summer jobs, some of us will take summer classes. Once you are out of high school summer isn't as fun as it used to be.
When you get done with finals all you want to do is go home and relax, to do nothing but forget about all the things that you just learned in the past couple of weeks. The thing that you don't think about after finishing finals is how much you will miss your friends. When I left my friends I cried the whole way home, and I call and text them everyday. I didn't realize how much we actually did together, I didn't think about the endless nights that we spent sitting in my room singing every word to hairspray and all the late night trips we took to cookout. I didn't only miss the things that we did together but I missed seeing them everyday. You don't realize how much you will actually miss them until you are leaving campus thinking about the fact that the next time you see them could be in a couple of months. Your college friends are not just friends they are your family, and you will miss them almost as much as you did your real family while you were at school.
Summers through high school are fun and full of adventures. You don't have to keep a job or worry about taking classes at your local community colleges. That the main concern of your summer was what brand of tanning lotion you would buy to get the most tan. When you come home from college you are broke stressed and all you want to do is catch up on all the sleep you have lost. Coming home isn't as fun as it used to be, working everyday and in your spare time you have summer classes so that you don't get behind in your major. College not only changed the way you view school but it has also managed to change the way we think about summer.
No matter much we complain it is great to be home for the summer and to see all the people you went to high school with. Summer is only a couple of months so you should enjoy it while it lasts because as soon as it is over we will all be back in the books hoping to get another break soon. Enjoy ever minute of summer you have!
