Bad Week, Need Advice

leslielemon
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:31:18 +0000

Hi, I’m at the end of a really bad week in college (I’m a freshman at private liberal arts school) and I’m just not sure what my next step is. At the beginning of the week it was okay, because I had gone to some meetings on maybe participating in deferred rush, and met some really nice new people. But all week I’ve felt sick, and then this is all following my roommate suddenly moving out and becoming a commuter two weeks ago, and only telling me the day before she moved out. Things have been really weird with her, and then yesterday some more weird stuff happened with her and it kind of sent me over in terms of the amount of stress I’ve had. I talked to my mom about it, and she offered for me to come home this weekend (I’m about an hour and half away). I really really want to go home, because all of a sudden I’ve started feeling really hopeless here, but this week is Halloween and Homecoming, and even though I don’t really party or was super looking forward to it, I feel a bad leaving because everyone I know has been hyping it up. Would it be terrible if I left for the weekend?

PS It’s been about two and half weeks since Fall Break, which was the last time I went home. I haven’t been thrilled here, but I have people I’m friendly with in all my classes and some people that I can hangout with on the weekends. Despite this, I feel really isolated from my hall mates because they party all the time and I don’t. I thought we were fine even though we aren’t close but a few weeks ago I heard them talking about me outside in the hall. I don’t know, this has been the first time I’ve just felt terrible about being here. I almost started crying in one of my classes this morning.