Sleeping in your own bed.
No matter how comfy your bed at school is, nothing beats climbing into your bed in your room at home.
Forgetting about school for a while.
Winter break in college isn't like winter break has been in the past. When you were in high school, teachers could assign projects and papers and reading for you to do, some people even had finals after break that they had to study for. In college, you just finished a whole semester and you're coming up to a semester of classes that haven't started, so that leaves you with vey little to do.
Hanging out with your old friends.
After having been away from each other for a few months, hanging out with your old friends from home can either be super great and easy, or really weird. Hopefully its the former, and you can just hang out like old times and catch up, but people change in college and there's always a chance that one of you is different than they used to be and that can make things awkward.
Missing your friends from school.
Even though you met them just a few short months ago, you've spent so much time with them and it's hard to transition from having your best friends down the hall to not even being within an hour's drive to them.
Living with parents.
In the past couple of months, you've gone from a kid to a young adult. Yes, there have been times when you've missed your parents and family more than anything in the world, but after being a fully independent almost-adult for the past few months, it's hard to turn around and lose that freedom that you had.
Home-cooked meals.
The upside to living with parents again is the food. As convenient as eating can be in college, with just a short walk to a hot and ready meal, nothing beats your parents' home cooking.
Seeing people from high school.
When you go home for break you have those people you want to run into and hang out with, and you have those people that you really would just rather not run into while you're at the grocery store with your mom looking a mess. Winter break is a huge stretch of time and your bound to run into people from high school, whether or not you want to.
Having nothing to do.
Sure, you can pick up some shifts at work and you'll spend plenty of time hanging with old friends, but some people some people have six whole weeks for break. You know there isn't always that much to do in your home town, and you can only work so much. This can be a much needed break from this semester that undoubtedly tire you out, but it can also drive you absolutely crazy after getting used to a super busy schedule in college.
