Summer is everyone's favorite time of the year. Especially those of us who are still in school. Summer is a time where you go home and everything is changed, but you act like it's not. You have new friends, you have done new things, you have different interests, but then you go back to having a curfew during the summer.
Unlike high school, middle school and elementary school, when college students go home for the summer, they often leave some of their best friends behind. While seeing your friends from home is a treat and fun, some things are just not the same and you begin to miss your college friends. College friends are the friends that get to know you extremely well because they see you in every form (drunk, happy, sad, in love, heartbroken, sober, tired, high on life, working out, delirious, hangry, with a food-baby, with and without the freshman fifteen, and acting like an idiot on the dance floor). Most importantly, your college friends get to see the real you. The one without making your parents happy, the one who makes their own choices, and the one who is struggling to be a real human at the ripe age of 18. Your high school friends know you, do not get me wrong, but you are lying if you say you tell your high school friends just as much as you tell your friends from college. Be honest, it is so annoying to have to send your high school friends pictures of your newest love interest when your college friends know the person.
Coming home from college also amazing because of the free laundry, the homecooked meals, your family, your bed, your dogs, your bathroom, your shower, and millions of other things. However, coming home often also means you loose some of your freedom. Going home means that mom and dad are in charge and making the decisions again, you suddenly have a curfew and have to tell your parents where you are going at all times, and you can't order Dominos at 3 am when you really need it anymore.
There is also the fact that when you come home for the summer in college, everyone asks you questions about your personal life that are potentially crossing some normal social boundaries. But because you're coming home from college, it is okay to ask and say things one normally would not. Like, "Are you a lesbian?" or "your legs look bigger". For some reason college changes everything.
The toughest part about going home for the summer is being on different time zones than some of your college friends. For many college students, their friends come from all over the world. This means that Facetiming and Skyping is not necessarily that easy and that when you need help or advice it is hard to get. Missing your best friends and not being able to communicate with them is very hard, but at least summer only comes for three months a year.
