For every one that lives away from home for university

[DailyBlessings]

Sometimes I miss the people that I left there, my parents, my dog. But I don't really miss the place. I hated the town I grew up in, and the area surrounding it. The place I am now feels more like "home" to be honest, because I fit here much better than I ever fit there.

 

[ejgsmalls]

My family is incredibly close so yeah I miss them quite a bit...but I wouldn't mind so much if I liked the school. In fact I am transfering in the fall - but probably to a school farther from home than my current one.

God Bless and Bless God,
~Mary

 

[ThatButton]

At my first school I missed home a lot but transfered to another school that was about equal distance away and love it here. I think I miss home the most because I am the oldest of 6 kids so it was nice to have someone around to talk to. I also enjoyed that you could be brutally honest with your family whereas a college roommate may not handle it as well.

However I have not even lived at home in the summers while in college. I just started feeling like it wasn't really home anymore. I do know that my brothers and sisters have become my friends now that I don't live with them. Before we fought a lot and they were an annoyance. Now they are all people I enjoy chatting with and well they are still annoying but that's what brothers and sisters are for! haha!

 

[septemberskies]

I don't miss home at all... i felt a little guilty about that too since my mother still calls me just about everyday. I like my life here and i define this as home... i'm looking not to return back to live with my family after i'm through here.

 

[jhollas]

Being an Army brat means that I'm used to not calling one place home. I've also been in boarding schools since the age of 8, so am completely used to be away too.
However, both my sister and I would now consider one place home (Wiltshire), and I do miss it terribly, especially living in a city like London, and the family house now being in Nottingham.

 

[Menuet]

Yes. I have my boyfriend and friends but things for me get scary.I'm having a loss of hearing,my parents know and wish me to come home but I'm not going to do that. I miss them though.

 

[batmatt]

I'm from Kansas and I go to schol in Florida, so I don't go back home very often, but I don't get homesick at all. It's a little weird because I feel like I belong back in my home town, but I don't have any desire to move back in with my parents. Whenerver I go home to my parents house, I feel like I don't really belong there.

 

[starprincess]

Everyone misses home for their first few... days, months, years, who knows.

But as you start completing your undergraduate, you'll start having a new home.

And perhaps a day will come when there exists a subtle tension between you and your parents.

Well, at least for me, when I visit home, there is tension between me and my father. Nothing big, but a natural sort of "OK. I'm leeching. But i'm still your son."

Any way, when I visit, i feel like I don't belong. Cuz I don't.

i can testify to that.. I know what u mean...

After being away from home for almost 5 yrs... Not sure what there is to miss.
I enjoy the freedom- This is my new home, away from home.

 

[ChristsChick]

I haven't missed home since I left last year, sure I miss my family, but would never want to go back, I'd already long out-grown my small town by the time I left.

Going back's weird, it's like I know this place is still my home, but I just don't belong there anymore...

 

[Llauralin]

No, not really. I was homeschooled for 12 years, and have had quite enough home to last me for a long while.

 

[jhollas]

I haven't missed home since I left last year, sure I miss my family, but would never want to go back, I'd already long out-grown my small town by the time I left.

Going back's weird, it's like I know this place is still my home, but I just don't belong there anymore...

I think I'm sort of the opposite. Not being in one place for very long meant that home was simply wherever the house was. It means that I've never really got homesick at all.
However, because we were in one place for quite a while, where both my sister and I went to school, and where we still have lots of friends, we kind of adopted that place as home, and both miss it horribly!

 

[CapitalLancer]

I miss my mother, our horses, my dog, the truck, the small town, free rent, and the wilderness.

 

[Ellesar]

I miss my family. I've been away from home for 2 years now, but I still love going home whenever I can, since I live too far away to go home whenever I want to.

 

[Cordelia]

On the whole, no... I know home is waiting for me and I visit every couple of weeks anyway, but I love uni a lot and my place there is my sanctuary, my space, my freedom I have to move out in a couple of months and I'm gutted!

 

[oncewaslost]

sometimes i miss home but then i go home and i go crazy because i suddenly have the old house rules on me again. i like being away from home.

 

[littlecoda]

I'm right by my home so no.

 

[Molloyboy]

I noticed a massive difference in living in halls and then living in a house.
In my first year i was in halls and i missed home quite a bit, pretty much because I was put with people who i wouldn't normally be friends with. And that was a massive challenge, trying to stick to a christian lifestyle.

However now I am living in house with three awesome people and that makes a massive difference. So to anyone in halls I suggest you stick it out till you are living with people you want to live with, then see how you feel.

 

[jobygirl]

I miss my family soemtimes. I love them alot. But it's a really good experience to be a way from home. I'm really glad that I did go away to college. It's true 8 hours sometimes seems like a really long drive home, But my parents are only a phone call away if I start to really miss them.

 

[rebornyetagain]

I missed it while up there. But now that I am back... Home doesn't feel like home anymore. Right now I am just in between, because I can't say that Humboldt State feels like home either.

 

[Wisteria]

I attend a university about 3500 miles from "home." My first few months at university were especially difficult, but I adjusted. The funny thing is, I now also call the university "home," so I have two homes. I definitely do get homesick sometimes. I'm very close with my parents, and it can be hard only being home for Christmas break and summer. However, I am so blessed to be attending this university. I have learned so much the past two years -- not just academically, but about life and completely depending on God.