Summer is a wonderful time for relaxation, sun and adventure. After just finishing my first year of college, I was excited to get home to my family as well as have days filled with friends and the beach. Boy, was I wrong.

Once you live away at college, you forget just how different living at home is. You no longer have friends right down the hall to hangout with if you get bored and there isn't something constantly going on for you to do. The house is quiet and after a couple of weeks, you miss your friends from school.

Seeing family is great until they all begin asking you millions of questions at once. How was school? Are you working this summer? How about an internship? Any summer classes that interest you? The list goes on, and you begin to realize how little you have to do that summer. It's hard to find a job at home when you're only there for three months, internships are hard to come by at such an early stage of your college career, and summer classes can be entirely too expensive to take. What ever happened to tanning all day and staying up all night?

By July, you realize that your friends who were lucky enough to find a summer job are working full time and suddenly, your social life is non-existent because all of your friends are busy most of the week. You begin to realize that you need to start working or pick up a new hobby to tide you over until move in day.

So for those of you who believe that a college summer is all fun, games and parties, you're in for a rude awakening. It's mostly working, Netflix, and counting down the days until you're back at school. But have no fear! Fall semester with your people will certainly make up for the long summer you spent a part from school and everyone you love that comes with it.