for all the current/past college people

[Babydoll]

right now I'm in university, an hour from home, living in an apartment with my boyfriend...


this is my first time away from home, and I'm an only child.


I feel SO homesick!!!!! I was home last weekend for thanksgiving, and cried cause I miss my parents so much. does it ever end? how long will it take me to adjust? I'm so dependant on my parents ( I'm 22!) and have always been their baby.


can anyone else relate to this? what got you through these times!!Edited by: Babydoll

[2jo2]

OMG I can sooooooo relate!!!!! I moved out for each schoolyear, and lived with my boyfriend (now husband). Supposed to be a fun time??? NO! I was so homesick, I'd go home all that I could, talked to my mom on the phone, etc. and this was before email/internet, so with email it's soooo much nicer!!! I got really involved in my studies and it eased up alot when I was busy, I think that's the key. When you have time to sit around and think, then it gets hard.


I'd move home for the summers and each fall it was the same thing, never got easier for me, I loved living at home and getting taken care of by my parents... I always said I'd still be living at home if I weren't married. BUT, here's the thing, I grew up, matured, got my own identity, this all happened when I was about 25 or so (I was a big baby, so it took longer for me to "grow up") and at that time I felt like it would be so limiting to go and live back at home again, so good news, it gets alot better!!! Just stick it out and keep yourself busy with things you like to do. This is an exciting time in life!

[sarahx]

I wish i could help, ive neer got homesick. Mind u i only live 15mins away from m parents lol!!! If i lived any further away i guess id be really homesick i talk to my mum everyday at least once if i dont see her lol!!! Mummys girl lol!!


I guess you just get used to it, thats all???


Sarah xxx

[hazy]

My parents live in New Zealand, about as far away as they can! Moving to the UK was one of the hardest things I've ever done. It does get easier, you'll always miss them but just remember they're always a phone call or text message away!

[eyecandi512]

I was so homesick when I started college, I actually made friends with who is now my best friend, because the two of us were crying in the common room over homesickness and decided to talk to each other, lol. I got over it after about a month or two. Now I transferred back home, not because I was home sick, but my parents suck and if I wanted to transfer, I had no choice but to go to this college neaer my house and live at home. Now with all the issues I have with my parents...I'mn again homesick....or sick of my home :'(


But it does get better, and eventually it's hard to go back home....trust me. You'll get through it, and you';re only an hour away, you can go home anytime.

[Callum]

I lived with my girlfriend at Uni and like you I was homesick. I'd never lived out of London before and found it hard to adjust.


I settled down though and when I moved back 3 years later, I found it harder to settle back in London than I ever found adjusting to living away.


Trust me you'll get used to it and have a fantastic time.


If I could pass on one piece of advice to anyone in your position it would be this: try to take all this in and enjoy it. I realised afterwards that although I enjoyed my years away, the first weeks - the toughest weeks - was a time in my life I'll never experience anything like again and I wish I'd been less worried about being away from home, my emet and stuff.


I only realised what a unique time in my life it was afterwards, because at the time it just seemed like chaos.