<p>Those of you who go away to college how often do u come home? Is it hard to have a part time job, a social life and still find time to visit home</p>
<p>I only go home during the long weekends/breaks, such as Fall break, Thanksgiving, Spring Break. I don't go home on normal weekends...and I only live about an hour from school. </p>
<p>Reasons: 1) too much work, 2) travelling back and forth cost money</p>
<p>I go to college across the country from home, so I only get to come home for Christmas and the summer.</p>
<p>Yes it is hard, most weekends I have to work at one job or the other, or I have three tests the next week and need to stay here to study for them, or I want to hang with friends at a party, or I have extracurricular activity stuff going on. I'm about 5-6 hours from home and go there maybe 2-3 times a semester...during the long weekends so the drive is actually worth it</p>
<p>I'm about 45 minutes from home. I go home roughly every 3 weeks, sometimes more often, sometimes less, depending on my schedule, school holidays, family stuff etc. I don't have a job (school is my job), so the only battle is homework. I also try to fit my visits home around the hockey schedule. Occasionally it can be hard to find time to go home, but I find that I need to go home. I love my school, but I do need to get away and see my family once in awhile. My parents also come up occasionally to take me out for lunch or dinner</p>
<p>I'm about 1800 miles from home...so far this year I've gone home for one five-day weekend, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break in 4 days 19 hours. My parents came up once too. First semester was a lot more frequent; this semester is just two months of school, one-week spring break, two months of school (I wouldn't recommend it if you can avoid it; it's too long for me).</p>
<p>Heh, I'm going to be about 25 mins from home next year, I don't plan on coming home too much, but I probably will every month or so (and special occasions, birthdays, etc.). The funny thing is, if I decided to go to Emory, I'd be about 10 mins from home at all times. That's partly the reason I'm not going (The same roads and restaurants and locations that I've been passing every day my entire life!)</p>
<p>If everything were to go just right, I wouldn't have time (or money or energy) to come home from college in two years. </p>
<p>a) I'd be crushed under NYU Stern's heavy workload.
b) If I'm not working on finance homework, I'd be at Goldman Sachs selling my soul to the nicest managing director (and schmoozing for a job)
c) Coming home would entail the following...
1. Spending hours on orbitz.com looking for a ticket across the country for under $300 that's not a redeye or leaves at 5AM.
2. Going to a travel agency in frustration at my inability to do #1 and booking a flight, still for $300.
3. Navigating my way through that maze called NY Kennedy Int'l Airport.
4. Waiting 3 hours.
5. Flying for 3 hours just to find out that it's not direct and you have to stop over at:
-Dallas or Chicago if I'm flying American
-Chicago or Denver or DC if I'm flying United
-Minneapolis or Detroit if I'm flying Northwest
-Houston if I'm flying Continental
-Etc. Etc. Hopefully I can take a nonstop via JetBlue
6. Dealing with delays if there's a connection, flying for 6 hours straight if JetBlue
7. Landing at SJC only to find out that my mom went to the wrong terminal to pick me up (or forgot)
8. Driving another 2+ hours...</p>
<p>I don't think I can put myself through this torture more than 4 times a year. Point is, if you live far enough away from home to have to travel via plane/train/greyhound bus/car (for more than 3 hrs) you don't want to go home often. It's expensive and draining.</p>
<p>I live 2 hours away from home and I go home about every three weekends... mostly because I'm swamped with work and know that if I stay at school I'll be out partying with my friends. Also... I love my roommates but I need a break sometimes. My parents are rarely home on the weekends so I have the house all the myself.... very peaceful and a break from all the energy of college.</p>
<p>I'm 3000 miles from home, I went home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I'm not going home for spring break and I'm trying to avoid going home for summer like the plague. My dad came out once fall semester, he's going to be here once spring semester, and my mom will be here once spring semester. I love my family, but I also realize that independance is really important to me. So I'm trying to find an internship or job that will allow me to afford an apartment on my own. If you're going far away from home this may be something you've considered anyway because you want to be that far away.</p>
<p>This weekend was the FIRST time I came home and it wasn't for a school break! And I'm a sophomore. I had just gone through my first round of midterms (second after spring break) and spent the last 6 weeks getting involved with friends and orgs endlessly so... I guess I needed to get away from my school's crowd for a bit!</p>
<p>I honestly don't go home all that often.... only because there's really nothing to do! I live only 2 hours away- a very nice drive.</p>
<p>Amen to the above posters- if you don't live less than 3 hours drive away, things can get pretty complicated about how/when/why you would get/come home. Timing and money are definitely the biggest issues. Take it from me- I was at a different school with three travel options 1) find someone with a car and drive for 5 hours, 2) 10 hours on the train for $80 round tirp, and 3) On the bus for 13 hours.</p>
<p>I live about 25-30 minutes away from my college. Last semester I went home almost every weekend (except most home football weekends), and the beginning of this semester too. I was feeling homesick alot I guess, because I didn't really know that many people or have alot of people I consider friends or know anywhere to go on the weekends. Now I go home probably once every 3rd weekend, because well, I AM really close to home so it's convenient for laundry and stuff. Also, I have alot of stuff to do on weekends now, like I go swing dancing on friday nights (best thing that ever happened to my social life) and the past two saturdays I've had something to do (my mom came down yesterday though). I'm going home next weekend mostly because it's my mom's birthday.</p>
<p>I live about an hour, hour and 20 minutes away from school depending on traffic. My first year, I went home a lot. Mostly because my parents seemed to expect it and because the dining hall food was so ****ty and I couldn't really cook food myself, so I kept wanting to go home so I could actually EAT for a weekend. My roommate went home every single weekend the entire year without fail and a lot of the people that I knew that lived in the area went home frequently, too. But it's a common thing at this school. Now I have an apartment with a kitchen and all my stuff's here and even though I have my car now (I didn't before), I don't really want to go home often...for me there's not much to do there but sit around in my empty bedroom and be nagged by parents. I rarely had a problem with not wanting to go home due to work, since most work is done on the computer and the computer comes with me.</p>