<p>My son gives us the brush-off too when we bring him back after a night or WE etc.
I think it has something to do with protecting themselves. They are part of a community, or another world if you will. They know they can’t come home, and have given in to the idea that they are now in another place where faculty and friends are extremely important in getting by the day to day. There must be a name for this phenomenon. But I am sure its all part of the going-away/living away process, maybe unique to freshman, I don’t know.</p>