Every college student faces the same feeling when they come home from college. For the first few weeks, when we refer to being home, we think of the place where we grew up, where our comfortable beds are and where the rest of our family still is. Soon after that, we find ourselves slipping up and referring to our homes as whatever residence life building, floor and room number we live in. After being away for so long, the place where we attend school becomes home, and our actual home almost feels like a distant place. This is the common feeling shared by college students who return home for breaks:

1. Out of the loop of gossip

Who did what?

2. A lot changed in your town, and you notice it all at once

Wasn't there a building there? They finally finished making that strip mall?

3. Feeling bad for the people that actually have to go back to school

Sorry that your winter break is only a week.

4. Feeling like a stranger in your home

Can I use this? Is this food OK for me to eat?

5. You realize how great your mattress is

6. Feeling obligated to spend more time with your family

7. You didn't want to see people when you went to school with them, and you sure don't want to see them now

I just wanted to go get coffee, not have a mini high school reunion.

8. You really appreciate your parents home cooking

Anything tastes better than something from the dining hall.

9. No longer knowing all of your friend's friends

10. Your best friends don't live two doors down

You can't just walk over in your pajamas. You actually have to get in your car and drive to their houses if you want to see them.

11. Liking a specific place to eat that doesn't exist in your hometown

"Well we eat at –– oh, wait. This place doesn't exist here, you wouldn't know what it is."

12. Trying to drive as much as possible

Before you may have let people come pick you up, but now you offer to drive most of the time.

13. Any acquaintance you had in high school now wants to go get lunch with you

But all in all you still love coming home.