When you come home on breaks from school, you are hit with the realization that home is not the same as being at school. While it is nice to be home for a little while, do we really need almost a whole month off?
You don't make the rules.
Possibly the biggest change to adapt to when going home is that you go home to your parents' rules. You don't live with only someone else your age, and you have to tell someone where you're going. But it's OK because they just want to make sure you're safe.
You have to answer a million questions about school.
Any time you see a relative, family friend, or someone from high school, you get attacked with too many questions about school. "What's your major?" "How was your semester?" "Do you actually go to class or just party all the time?" "Do you have a boyfriend?" "How long are you home?" And you're just like... bye now.
Dining dollars don't exist outside of your college campus.
Want Starbucks? You have to pay for it with real money. Snacks? Real money. Any type of food? Real money. It's a rough life.
Making food requires effort.
If you want to eat, you can't just walk over to dhall and call it a day. You have to make food or have someone else make it for you.
You have to drive places.
You can't just walk five feet and hang out with your friends. Shuttle drivers don't exist. It takes more than five minutes to go somewhere to do something fun. And with driving more comes buying gas more.
It's not acceptable to stay in bed until 4 in the afternoon.
If you try to do this, you will probably get a lot of questions about what's wrong with you. I mean getting out of bed requires real clothes, showering, and so many other inconvenient things, so why doesn't everyone just stay in bed all day?
Everyone assumes you have a life.
Your family keeps asking you if you have plans with your friends. They're hilarious. Don't they know that we don't have lives outside of college? I'll just be in bed watching TV and organizing my Pinterest boards, don't mind me.
The only entertainment you have is eating and shopping.
You'll return to school for the next semester weighing more and having less money than before. Life is great.
