Everything has its cons and pros with coming home for winter break. You do not have to do a ton of work anymore until the month after and you get to be with your close friends from home. The cons will be you get bored being home after a few weeks and things are limited to do when it's freezing cold and none your friends want to head outside. In my situation, the cons outweigh the pros and I'll get to some reasons why. When I first get home, I say hi to my family and friends, hang out with them and get back to the old times when I stayed home all the time. After Christmas, seeing my family and everything the boredom strikes and I decide I want to go back to college so I can continue pursuing my career and meeting new people. I have limited things to do when I am home and jobs are cut short because most of them are taken from other employees that were looking for one before me. The food is the best part and being with family and friends, but then it's just the same routine over and over again, without work to stress me out or teach me something new.
The knowledge you gain in college from your major is immense, but once you go home you get the break from it and have to find the motivation to learn again. The motivation when leaving home back to college in the Spring semester is detrimental and you lose a lot of that. That is another con that continues to flow, motivation is gone and same routines continued. Opportunities are not limitless, but the break flies back and you are right back at school. The only thing that may keep me to staying home is making youtube videos so I can continue pursuing my career as a YouTuber. I love the amount of love you receive when getting home, but the boredom strikes to a point, where it is like can I go back to college yet. The only problem is when college throws a lot of homework, tests, and quizzes at you, you would like to be home, but when you are home for too long you want to go back to college.
It is a difficult process that everyone goes through in life, but everyone is different from each other in their view of this. Christmas is a great holiday to spend time with your family like almost any other holiday but to me, it's just a point of time where you get bored of being home for too long. Somethings are not meant for people, but college is tough and breaks are necessary for many people. Stress is a factor that can take a toll on anyone's life drastically. Hopefully youtube continues to keep me occupied at me home often.
