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When Summer Break Begins...

Summer break comes with many realizations

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When Summer Break Begins...
Amanda Marsalis

Everyone loves when it is finally time for the semester to end and for summer to begin. This time can also be the worst. Once you move back home you come to realize just how different your world has become, a difficult transition for everyone to face.

1. The Full Freedom to Home Life

At school, especially if you are living there, you have this massive amount of freedom! You leave school to go home for you to realize that, though you may have been able to do anything at school, you have rules that are to be followed and things to do. Having your parents tell you what to do, where you can and cannot go can be a huge difference and largest struggle to deal with.

2. Sense of Loneliness

While living at school there is always someone down the hall, on another floor, or around the corner to hangout with. Once you move back home you no longer have that and everyone has a different schedule to work with now. There is now no longer someone always there to hangout with anymore.

3. College Friends

Chances are that in your college time you have created friendships with people that live all over the place! Sadly with a college student budget you may not see a lot of those friends, which can cause some of those relationships to dissolve.

4. Home Friends

With all promises of staying close through college or just how your lives may have changed can cause you to see who your true friends are. You may have less friends at home than you thought and will know who they true friends are, the ones that you can just flow right back into your normal routines with.

5. How You Have Grown

College is a major milestone and helps you to find who you truly are. While at school you see the person you wish to be, are forced to grow and be responsible, and the types of people you want around you. These are all apart of growing up and becoming an adult.

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