Around Thanksgiving most students are ready to go home for the holidays. Being home for Thanksgiving is just a taste of winter break. You get home-cooked food, and you have no responsibilities when it comes to school, and if you do, you ignore them—don’t worry we all do it.
Once we come back to school, we miss all the food, and we have to snap back into school mode knowing that we only have a few more weeks until we return home.
We start to countdown the days, hours and minutes until we can go home. Twitter timelines blow up with the following:
“I just want go home”
“I miss my family”
“I want my dog”
“ I want my bed”
“Is this semester over yet?”
It’s like high school musical when they are staring at the clock chanting “summer”, “summer”, “summer” but in this case we’re staring at the calendar chanting break “break”, “break”, “break”.
Than before you know it...
IT’S BREAK!
The first week of break is wonderful. You get to be lazy. Eat real food. Watch Netflix without knowing you have five-page paper to type by tomorrow and the best Christmas present of all…. SLEEP!
But as the weeks go by, you start to get bored. Yes, you might have a job and you get to see some of your home friends but there’s something about being at college.
You start to miss your friends, even if they were annoying you before you left. You start to miss the campus, the freedom of being an “independent” college student.
College has become your home. Yes, you will always have your real home where your family lives, and there’s nothing like coming home to see your family after several months. But you’re at school for so long that it has become home and your friends have become your family. You’ve learned to be on your own—to a certain extent. We’re growing up or we have grown up.
A month is great for not doing schoolwork, but after so long, we start to feel empty. You probably saying “NO!” but just think about. You are used to being productive. When you’re sitting doing nothing for so long, it gets boring.
It’s also hard to go from being able to do whatever you want and not having anyone there telling you what to do or when to do something. Then you go back home and you have to follow your parents' rules. It’s a readjustment for a whole month, then you go back to doing your own thing after a month. It's kind of confusing in a way.
Coming home for break is well needed, but it might not need to be for a whole month.
I take that back.
Break needs to be a whole month, because after a whole semester of stress we need a well-needed vacation, even if that’s just sitting on a couch.
But maybe we should just not have to do schoolwork and just have fun on campus for the one half and come home for the other. A well-balanced break.
