Going home every weekend? (overkilled topic I know)

vkugal
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 04:56:14 +0000

Yeah, yeah, I know a quick search will produce about 100 results for me to choose from, but I’m asking in my specific situation. Ok, I go home every weekend to hangout with my cousins (who are my absolute best friends) and to have some home-cooked meals because there are no kitchens here for me to cook. I can also do my laundry in peace and without worrying about having exact change. I have started to make friends, but they work on the weekend or spend the day studying and catching up, while I normally complete homework and studying during the week so I can relax on the weekends (of course I study and review, but in small bursts). We hang out a lot during the week and I don’t feel I’m missing out on much since we talk all the time.

I don’t party at all. At all, at all. Like not even small gatherings where alcohol is drunk for religious reasons. The weekends are essentially full of drunken parties. I know you’ll tell me that not all parties are like that, which I of course know. But I’ve been invited to a couple parties and all either advertised alcohol or eventually turned into a party with alcohol.

Anyway, for the reasons above, I go home almost every weekend. I enjoy the quiet of my home and my bed and seeing my cat. I know people are international or out of state and don’t have the luxury of doing any of that and that they have to deal with it, but why should I be miserable and bored because others have to be?

A common criticism I’m seeing is that there’s the fear the student will never become independent. Well I feel that’s not true in my case seeing that I cook for myself, do my own laundry, pay my own “bills” (depositing checks for tuition), and I have a job. I signed up for classes myself and dropped and added classes myself. I found a job myself. I feel I can survive in an apartment alone.