Winter break always starts off great. You get to see your home town friends for the first time in months, eat at all of your favorite places around town, spend quality time with your family and finally get to drive around again. However, after a month, the novelty of this is starting to wear off and it is time to get back to school.

I feel bad wishing away time at home because it isn't like I don't love hanging out with my family and seeing my parents a lot. I do love that and it is the best part about being home. However, when I am not spending time with them, I feel like I am doing nothing.

Maybe once or twice a week I will make plans with friends or take a trip and go see some friends from college, but that is it. The rest of the week I spend wandering around my house, doing random tasks, online shopping, trying to decide what I want for lunch and whether or not it is worth taking off my pajamas. By this point in winter break, I don't feel like a real person.

While going to class and doing homework is no ones favorite activity, it at least gave me something to do and work towards. I love the structure of classes and knowing what I am going to be doing every day. Yes, it can get monotonous but at least I am accomplishing something each day. At home, I feel like I have accomplished nothing besides what my favorite show on Netflix for the 10000000th time.

College gives me just enough free time on the weekends to not feel completely overwhelmed (at least most of the time), but still provides a schedule that I desperately need.

Though I am sure once I am a few weeks into classes and that first assignment hits me I will be wishing to be back on my couch with no responsibilities, it really feels like winter break provides too much of a good thing. Maybe this is the schools plan... to make college kids want to go back to school by smothering them with their old lives and boredom to the point where they wish they were doing homework and eating the same old dining hall food.

So even though I love my family, friends and hometown, it is time to go back to college.