<p>To all of the college students, did you move back home after your first year of college and how was it. Was it weird having to go back to listening to rules after you just got back from living on your own?</p>
<p>Do you mean moving back home permanently? Or just returning for a few months for summer?</p>
<p>returning home for a few months.</p>
<p>I am going to try like hell to get an apartment. I commuted my first two years-- being 20 years old and having a 1am curfew is not any fun. I will avoid it next summer at all costs.</p>
<p>I did for a month this summer. I didn’t do much at home, took a class online. Free food was nice but it also sucked to not be able to run out and get food whenever I pleased (don’t have a car, and to get anywhere in my hometown you need a car). There weren’t really any annoying rules that I had to start following again since where I live and where I go to school have such different atmospheres and set ups that the ‘questionable’ things I do at school are impossible to do at home (ie going places on the bus, walking to friends house at 2am, going downtown, etc). I don’t really have a curfew and never had one so that doesn’t apply to me.</p>
<p>The only annoying thing was that I had to do dishes the entire time and take out the trash. My mom felt since I was gone it was my turn. =/</p>
<p>I am not going home for the summer again (plan on studying aboard/research/summer classes at my university) until after I graduate.</p>
<p>I’m going back home next summer, since I’m a freshman. I will not have a curfew, I don’t give a crap what my parents say. I don’t think it’s right to put a kid in an almost utopian society for 9 months and then say “oops. You gotta do the dishes, take out the trash, clean your room, and be home by midnight” when they’ve not had to do what anyone but themselves said for that time.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent though, but that’s just me. If your kid did fine in college, stayed out of trouble and made good grades, let them be.</p>
<p>I stopped having a curfew by the time I turned 18… I still go home a few weekends here and there (my apartment is only about 45 minutes away from my parents’ house), but I don’t really have any rules. I help a bit around the house, but I get to eat my mom’s amazing food for free in return, so it’s a good trade.</p>
<p>"I’m going back home next summer, since I’m a freshman. I will not have a curfew, I don’t give a crap what my parents say. I don’t think it’s right to put a kid in an almost utopian society for 9 months and then say “oops. You gotta do the dishes, take out the trash, clean your room, and be home by midnight” when they’ve not had to do what anyone but themselves said for that time.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent though, but that’s just me. If your kid did fine in college, stayed out of trouble and made good grades, let them be."</p>
<p>When you have your own place you can make your own rules. Your parents could easily tell you SORRY BUDDY GET YOUR OWN PLACE and not let you come home at all, some parents do. What do you think it’s going to be like after graduation? Once you’re an adult you don’t get a free place to live anymore, and if you’re in college and you get one you’re just plain lucky, certainly not entitled.</p>
<p>Yes, I did move back home with my parents, and it’s only been a month and I want to run away and never come home again. They think that “i’ve changed, and i’m not the same person anymore, they don’t know me.” And its because they don’t. They don’t understand why I like to go out so much, why when I go out everyone drinks. Its absolutely ridiculous. </p>
<p>All I tell them is…that’s college, its how it is. And they reply with “no it’s not! That’s how you make it.” Please tell me… isn’t that how every college is??? YES!</p>
<p>My suggestion is, DON’T DO IT! Cus if you do, get ready for fights, yelling, crying, and a lot of tension to break out between you and your parents. </p>
<p>It isn’t the same after the first year of college, and moving back home really makes you realize that.</p>
<p>Yeah i’ve been home for a month now and will probably get a dorm again next year. IF I get a car then i’ll see about an apartment. When I was home for Winter Break and the summer after senior year I stayed out late all the time. My moms used to is not except for the times when i’m out at like 3 and just randomly decide to stay at a friends. We’ve had all the arguments pretty much. If theres anything she has a problem with now i blow her off. The big thing is that there’s a chain on our door that she waits to put on till I get home. She doesn’t like not having the chain on at like 3 am. What I tell her now is that i’ll just call or text her at some point if i’m gonna stay at a friends. That way she can put the chain on and not worry about it.</p>
<p>I moved back home for a full year a few weeks ago. They get on me about chores and things but it’s kinda just whatever. No curfew or anything, they ended that the day I graduated.</p>
<p>What’s with all the old threads?</p>
<p>And yes i went home. Mist kids do. If you are so stuck up to get in fights with your patents about dumb things like that then geez…</p>
<p>If college was all about going out, getting hammered, and then stumbling back into your room then you’ll have a problem coming home (one of many problems you have)</p>
<p>The sad thing about this thread revival is that there is a nearly identical one I remember posting in a week ago.</p>
<p>But that being said, if it’s annoying for you to have to do dishes and take out the trash for your family, how are you going to do anything if you don’t come home?</p>
<p>And my biggest problem with moving back home last year was boredom. I’m headed back to my college town for this summer in a few days. But it’s mostly because I need to do research down there.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m home for the summer, but taking classes here at a community college since it’s way cheaper. I’ll probably be up at my school next summer to take major classes, even though it’s cheaper here… But I don’t know if I’d want to… </p>
<p>It is pretty boring at home, as opposed to having parties and random friends and more outdoor options to do in a college town. Having parents ask where you are and what you’re gonna do is a little tiresome, along with chores, but it’s just give and take. They pay for most of my college stuff and I’m sure I’ll miss them when fall rolls around, so I might as well just deal with it and hang out with them while I can.</p>