Going home for summer can be cool. It is nice to see your family and friends... for about a week and then you start counting down the days until you finally get to be back at school with your friends.
It is nothing personal against all the people in your hometown, but you start to remember why you left in the first place. At home, your parents start to get a little worried when you sleep until 3 p.m., but little do they know you were up until 5 a.m. because you couldn’t sleep. When you are living on your own no one cares if you sleep until 3 p.m. or if you eat cold pizza for your last six meals.
Plus, you know when you go back home for the summer you will see people you went to high school with, and you have to have the pointless small talk and make the false promises that you are totally going to be best friends and hang out all summer because how can you possibly survive the summer at home without each other… then you remember that same person didn’t even look your direction in high school, but now they can’t even survive the summer without you. *Eye roll*
Also, who wants to go home and have to tell everyone about how well you are doing in school because usually they have seen your Facebook and are a little concerned because it looks like you are "really enjoying college because you have a lot of pictures of you out with your friends," and deep down you know they are only asking because they think you do not have your priorities straight. There is no way you could have over a 1.5 GPA with how much fun you are having. Again…*eye roll*.
The perk of being at school is that your friends already know how you are doing! They know that you do have a lot of fun, but you also have been studying every night until 2 a.m. so you can enjoy your weekends with your friends!
During the school year, we all have a set schedule. I know mine goes like this: wake up, get ready, go to class, go to work, eat dinner, do homework and repeat. During the summer, most of us do not have a full class load so there is a bit more free time to relax and hangout with our friends.
One of the greatest perks of being in town for the summer is that your friends that didn’t have schedules that lined up with yours often end up lining up. You start to form a summer squad and get to create memories that you would not get to create if you did not stay. You start to ask yourself, "why the hell didn’t I start hanging out with this person sooner?"
During the school year we all dread Sundays because that’s the day you have to get your life back together and you have to go to chapter and meetings. In the summer, Sundays become Sunday Fundays and quite honestly you start to look forward to Sundays because they become pool days and your day that you can completely set aside to goof off.
It becomes comical because you are used to walking through the quad and usually brushing past people, and then during the summer you are the only person on the quad. It becomes odd that it could ever be that quiet.
At home, when I don’t do anything all day my mom tells me that I’m lazy and I need to be productive. Let's be honest. Life is really, really hard, and a lot of the time you just need to rewind because life is just so hard. If you want to lock yourself in your room and watch Netflix for 48 hours and without showering or speaking to anyone, people at home would be concerned. Being at school and living with your roommates, they probably won’t even realize that you haven’t left your room for 48 hours. They might just be a little mad you didn't invite them to your Netflix marathon.
Summer will always be fun, but take the chance to spend one summer in your college town because it is worth experiencing.
