<p>Anyone else sad...?</p>
<p>I sort of am. One nice thing about going to college is that I'll not have to go to swim practice for three hours everyday over break.</p>
<p>Won't you be going home for break next year, though?</p>
<p>I kind of am..plus, it doesn't really feel like Christmas this year because it's like 60 degrees here, we just skipped the last two days of Hanukkah because we were all too busy (we celebrate both since my parents are Jewish and Methodist)..and this sounds really stupid, but I yelled at my mom for not wanting to bother finding the Christmas tree skirt..yeah, I'm just kinda sentimental, especially this year..lol</p>
<p>yeah, I am.
I keep thinking about how different everything will be next year.
It's pretty sad.</p>
<p>ive been thinking about this tooo. but not as much with christmas. ill come home for christmas, but i wont be able to come back for thanksgiving..which is huge in our family. im really sentimental about making "lasts" special. making this quite the interesting year..</p>
<p>thanksgiving and christmas have been sad but not too hard since I will be able to come home (even though it will be a lot different). but I think it's going to be really hard getting to my last birthday at home.</p>
<p>Lucky for me, my birthday is usually right around Thanksgiving (if not on Thanksgiving like it was this year), and I'm close enough to come home for Thanksgiving, so I won't have to worry about that.</p>
<p>But still. I do know what you guys mean about everything being different if even we're still coming home.</p>
<p>My idiot hick relatives are downstairs and I am sooooo jealous of you all. Seriously, as soon as I go to college I am never sitting through this again.</p>
<p>I have a dysfunctional family so I'm not going to miss everyone being together at once. I know I'll always be able to see my Mom, but one of my sisters is in college and the other just graduated so she's about to get started on her career. I'm not big on special occasions, though, so as long as I see them pretty often I'll be happy.</p>
<p>As for my birthday, it's in early May, so I'm going to have finals during that time for the next four years. It's going to SUCK. But I've had AP's on my birthday for the past two years so I guess I'm used to it. This year is my break since I'm probably not taking any exams.</p>
<p>missing birthdays will be tough. especially because my sisters birthday is the day after mine, and mothers day is either on one of our birthdays or is that same week. itll be hard to miss those particular days.</p>
<p>My whole family comes home for Christmas every year anyway, so it won't feel too different. Except now my mom will be cooking and cleaning to impress ME, and not just my siblings.</p>
<p>Strange thing is, I didn't even think about that until I read this post.</p>
<p>And honestly, no. Christmas means next to nothing to me.</p>
<p>I did not care; this year I have too much work.</p>
<p>This isn't my last x-mas at home, I should be coming home for atleast part of the break next year.</p>
<p>you can still come for break....i hope ur not planning on staying in your dorm over break.</p>
<p>actually i think it might work out better, since i wont fight with my family so much</p>
<p>^lol, that's always true.</p>
<p>I know we'll be coming home over break, but somehow it still won't be the same.</p>
<p>somehow? It definitely won't be the same. I won't have a bedroom, I'll have to sleep on the floor, and I won't have my car.
my sisters are more excited about my going to college than I am!</p>
<p>Hmmmm. I'm not actually too sad about not being home for next Christmas. I won't be home; I'm going to be abroad, perhaps in Spain, doing my gap year. And if I'm not in Spain, I'll be in Ecuador with my family, so that'll be a wildly different kind of Christmas, too! I've done Christmas abroad--in England--but obviously a Christmas on the equator will be quite another thing from a Christmas in merry old snowy England. :p</p>
<p>Anyway, the holidays have sort of waned in my family over the past few years: fewer and fewer relatives actually take part in them each year, as my cousins become more independent (or are sent overseas with the military :() and my elderly relatives become more... well... decrepit. And I've already been missing out on family traditions since I was 13, when I became vegetarian and couldn't eat any of the usual holiday fare. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two (actually three--we have special meals on Christmas Eve and Christmas day) times a year I regret my vegetarianism. Pathetic, huh? :(</p>
<p>Actually, you have to come home for Christmas. Colleges close up during winter break (which is around 3-4 weeks long instead of 2 for high school) and make students go home. All the residence halls close. This is what happened at my college.</p>
<p>wow, i didn't think of that at all until i came across this thread.</p>
<p>yeah i kinda am now :(</p>