Going away to college can be a whirlwind of emotions. Even if you're not a first year student, the first few weeks of classes and new adjustments can hit you like a freight train. You're nervous, you're excited; the list goes on. Sometimes, you even feel homesick. Yes, I said it; even the best of us get homesick from time to time.

As a second year student, being homesick is a weird concept for me to grasp. Freshmen year, I never caught the dreaded case of being homesick. So why do I suddenly miss home so much?

My theory is that freshmen year consumes so much of our time. Students are so busy making new friends, joining sport or clubs, and just living out their newfound freedoms. They don't have the time to miss home.

When sophomore year comes, you're accustomed to how things work while at school. You have a routine you follow each day, and your college town starts to feel like home. Until some days it just doesn't, and that is completely fine.

Would we miss home if it wasn't worth missing? No, of course not. Those of us who miss home are actually extremely lucky. We have something back home with so much worth that we genuinely crave being there.

We crave the sights of our hometown that we once took for granted. We crave sitting around the fireplace with our family watching football on Sunday afternoons. We crave the feeling of sleeping in our bed at home, which will never be topped by the cheap mattresses in our college apartments.

I'm here to say there's absolutely nothing wrong with feeling homesick. You may become homesick whether you're a freshman or a senior; there's no right or wrong time. There's also nothing a quick phone call home, or even weekend getaway to home, can't solve.