<p>I was homesick for the first few weeks, but I was surprised at how quickly it went away. College isn’t exactly the best time of my life yet, but overall I’m pretty content with my roommate, the friends I’m making, classes, etc. I’ll get the occasional, brief bout of homesickness, but it’s not a common thing.</p>
<p>However, recently, the reality of not being at home and of having a life independent of family and high school friends is starting to hit me. Of course I can keep in touch with family and friends, but they’re busy, so I can’t count on super frequent communication. I can visit home, but I live 6 hours away so it’s not easy to do a lot.</p>
<p>Like I said, for the most part, college has been a pretty decent experience so far and I’ve only started to miss home in the last week or so. It’s not like, bad enough that I can’t function, but I’ve found myself with a lump in my throat here and there.</p>
<p>Anyway, TL;DR:</p>
<p>Is it weird that after about two months of being fairly well-adjusted to college, I’m starting to feel more homesick again?</p>
<p>Excitement of college is wearing off, it is perfectly normal to miss your family and your old surroundings now, especially if you are more stressed out over your schoolwork. If you are up north, lack of day light would also hit you harder. You miss home because you’ve had a good family life. You’ll be home soon enough for the holidays.</p>
<p>I think it’s normal. I was homesick for the first two weeks. It went away but it just came back this past week. My parents visited this weekend. And dropped me off back on campus about an hour ago. :(</p>
<p>Homesickness comes and goes for many students. It just depends on what’s going, but it’s normal to miss your family and friends. There’s nothing wrong with that whether or not your two months into school or five years after graduation. As long as it’s not crippling your life, then it’s fine. Call your parents, webcam with your friends, and try to keep busy with school and other activities. I’m sure your parents would love to hear that you miss them, and I’m sure your high school friends have at least one night free to webcam or chat.</p>
<p>It is definitely normal to feel homesickness at any point in the college process. I have found that it really does come and go and that the easiest solution is just throwing yourself into life at school and concentrating on your activities and friends there.</p>
<p>Two months in is a reasonable time and that’s usually when it hits me. I never got homesick as a kid. And even now, it isn’t something that makes me miserable. But I do miss home. Usually, I go home once or twice a semester, so I’m away from home for maybe two months at a time. But this year, I’m studying abroad, so I have to wait until December to go home and it’s really starting to hit me that I simply can’t go home.</p>
<p>If you think about it, a month is a pretty decent chunk of time. I mean, 3 months is a quarter of your year. It’s a long time. There’s nothing wrong with missing home after two months. If anything, I’d say that’s completely normal and means you have a decently healthy relationship with your family if you want to go home.</p>
<p>The ads and such online are now just starting to turn to holiday coverage - Thanksgiving now, and not long until they throw Christmas in the mix. So cue the nostalgic homesickness. That’s my theory, at least. It’s not a bad thing, I think, it’s just a part of the process.</p>
<p>I have two kids at college, a Junior and a Freshman, they are both very happy with their schools are both are homesick. I think this is normal, and am glad that you miss home, there are many kids who never want to go back home again and that is very sad to me.</p>
<p>I get homesick and I am a grown person living in their own home, and yet there are times I just want the comforts of the home I grew up in and I want my mom. When I am feeling vulnerable, that homesick feeling crops up more often. You will be okay. I think it’s very normal.</p>
<p>That’s the time when it’s most normal. The ‘newness’ and the exciting part of being a freshly enrolled college student has worn off. Now that that’s the case, you’re starting to realize that you’re really a long way from home. It’ll get better though. It’s a big change in life, and it takes a while to get used to.</p>