Will I survive winter break?

frustratedfrshmn
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:33:19 +0000

My winter break is over six weeks long. I cannot visit many of my friends during the day because they live extremely far away (up to 6 hrs). I dislike the (few) people I hung out with in HS and would not visit any of them. HS was Hell for me. My new college friends are very close to me, and very important to me. Being mostly alone for six weeks isn’t my idea of a great winter break.

I do consider this rule unreasonable because I have been in a completely unsupervised environment for 3 months and made very smart decisions on my own. Also, my former friends were not “lost” to drugs and alcohol. They are all in college now and doing fine despite the fact that they were in the “druggie” clique. But because that was their idea of fun, I lost touch with them. I made that decision, and it was a very hard one for me to make…because those were my friends…maybe not “real” ones or “good” ones…but I had known them since elementary school…and I didn’t have anyone else. And my parents think I went through that just to say, screw it, and go crazy? It’s not that they don’t know the “real” me that bothers me; their paranoia totally diminishes what I think was one of my strongest moments and the hardest part of my life.