As you finish the fall semester, there are a lot of emotions in your head. You're slightly delusional from lack of sleep (thanks to finals week) and all jacked up on holiday spirit. The only things you need to recuperate is a home cooked meal and a nice, long break. Just know, you’re not the only who feels like this; Liz Lemon and her pals at 30 Rockefeller Plaza also know exactly what you’re going through.
1. When you’re leaving your last exam to head home for a well-deserved break.
2. Your mom starts describing everything she’s making for your first meal at home.
3. Then you finally get to eat that home cooked meal made with love instead of the dining hall food and snacks that you've been living on for the past four months.
Excuse my manners. I've been living with other college students who act the exact same way that I do.
4. The first night, when your parents have so many questions, but you’re really just not feeling it.
I do love you and I will answer all your questions eventually, but I also really missed my friends from Grey-Sloan Memorial, Pope and Associates, and we would all like our time to catch up.
5. The question of how you're doing against the "Freshman 15."
6. Since your school releases for break super early, none of your friends are home from school yet.
Get ready for some me-time and family time.
7. But when your friends do come home, the reunions are always nice and it’s totally worth the wait.
8. Being with your friends is the best thing ever.
You're so excited to hear all about their semester and catch up on every aspect on their lives.
9. At some point, the fun ends and your mom starts making you do chores since you are living at home (like all that laundry that you should have been doing all semester).
You still have three weeks. You'll get it done eventually.
10. But you realize that basically everything in your house has changed since August and you’re not really sure how to do anything.
Did I really ever know how to work the dishwasher, oven or washing machine? I don't think so, but that's what my mom is for.
11. So instead, you spend some quality time with Netflix (pretty much all day, every day).
Right now, this seems like a good idea.
12. But then you finish binge watching all your shows after a week, and you still have three weeks of vacation with nothing good to watch -- maybe try re-watching “30 Rock” for the 18 time?
13. Luckily it's finally time for Christmas activities (they take a while to get here when you have almost the entire month of December off).
Christmas caroling for the win!
14. With holidays comes family time. At some point, you just have to face all of the relatives (and all their questions about what you’re doing with your life).
Not all of them will agree with your life choices, and will probably continuously question your choice of major.
15. But they give the best gifts because they realize that you’re a broke college kid, and since you were probably too busy attempting to study for finals, you forgot to write a letter to Santa, so they had no idea what else to get you.
16. At some point, you do realize it’s time to head back to school and rejoin the real world to start another semester of classes.
They really are, especially when you realize you have to leave your mom's cooking and start eating at the dining hall again.
17. And you realize you never did all your laundry (or any of the other things that you actually needed to do while at home) the day before you’re supposed to leave.
Oh well. Spring break isn't that far away.
18. Then it comes time to leave your parents (and your pets).
But that's basically been everyday so far since you realized that you actually have to leave.
19. Eventually you make it back to school and realize it's not the same as home.
For one thing, my cats aren't here, so was it even worth coming back?
20. But then you're reunited with your roommate (aka, the partner in crime), and you're finally ready to take on the next semester together.
