Homesick after the holidays

KateM
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:12:43 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I feel like I have been taking all the traditional advice that I hear given to freshman (get involved on campus, find activities you’re interested in), and I have definitely been interacting with people (sorry if I gave the wrong impression in my first post). For example, I spent most of today hanging out with a couple different people, and I was pretty successful in distracting myself from my homesickness. But once I was alone in my dorm room doing my homework, I just felt it all come back. Suddenly I felt myself thinking about what my family was doing, and all I wanted to do was go back home.

And I know that college will be gone before I know it, I just wish I was able to enjoy this time rather than thinking that it will all be over soon. I’ve always been the type of person who, when I’m with a big group of people, I would rather just be home. So at this point I’m beginning to question my decision to go to college so far from home. Since I don’t feel like there’s anything specific that’s “wrong” with my college that needs to be fixed, how should I cope with this homesickness?