I just finished my freshman year at a small west-coast liberal arts school. I made a solid group of friends and a couple best friends, and had an overall amazing year. The kid who couldn’t wait to get out of high school in KY was finally able to soak up the open, liberal culture of a progressive west-coast school. I also came out as bi after many closeted years and was found support in my friend group. The problem is then I had to go home to KY for the summer, live with my parents, go back into the closet, and be over 1500 miles from my nearest friend. Now I’ve been home for just over two months, and although I’ve been a little homesick for school the whole time, I just reached the point where I can’t stand being here anymore. I can feel myself involuntarily starting to take out my frustration on my parents, and I don’t want to do that. I can’t just sit here for the next six weeks wasting time in a job I hate, not going outside because of the heat, and just biding my time. Can anyone else relate? If you’ve made it this far thanks for listening to my rant. 
Maybe this will help a bit: start planning now for next summer. Look at internships, on-campus summer jobs, and research opportunities. Figure out what is needed for all of these in terms of application deadlines, recommendations, class prereqs, etc. The best gigs are competitive so getting your ducks in a row early and applying for several opportunities is a good strategy.
If you can find an on-campus job for this fall, you might be asked/required to report a few weeks early. So that could shave off some time.
Finally, this may be a longshot but you could contact your school and see if they want/need additional student workers for freshman orientation. Besides the school itself, you could contact specific programs that might need help.
Even if none of these pan out, you will have kept yourself occupied on the positive things in your life (your school community and your bright future).
I was going to give the same advice as @Otterma. See if you can do something away from home next summer – work on campus, do research with a professor, etc. Often on-campus jobs come with housing for the summer as well. And I had the same thought to see if they can use more people to help with orientation so you could have a reason to return to campus a week or so early.
In the meantime, remember to think before you talk. Your parent’s didn’t do anything wrong. In fact by allowing you to go to a “small west-coast liberal arts school” (rather than insisting you stay closer to home) they have done you a great service and have allowed you to grow and become the person you were meant to be. Now you have to be mature enough to not take your frustrations out on your parents. Hopefully one day you will be able to come out to them when the time feels right. But for now, I suggest you take a deep breath and make it through the next 6 weeks day by day. Get a calendar and cross off the days if it helps you to feel better. The time will pass.
@happy1 thanks for your input. I guess “take it out on” isn’t the greatest wording and definitely makes me sound like a spoiled brat lol. I’m actually lucky to have such a great relationship with my parents, but the frustration sometimes makes me withdraw when I should be spending time with them. Since I don’t see them often this feels like an issue. Thanks for pointing this out and for your other advice
@Otterma yes thank you I’m going to look into studying abroad next summer but these are all great suggestions. It’s great to get such a positive response to my random tangents.
Six weeks might sound like an eternity…but you’ll make it.
Do your best to keep it together and not abuse your folks. Some big changes in the transition between the parent child relationship…and the adult-adult relationship that is inevitably emerging. Parents say stupid crap a lot. It’s not meant to test you and torment you…it’s because it’s hard for them, too. They’re a little lost and trying to find their footing with the new family dynamics, too:)
Keep your cool. Stock yourself with good books to read, projects to do, things to occupy the waiting game. Design your new dorm/apartment room on paper. Make cool gifts for friends.
Sometimes it’s fun to do something over the top that your parents aren’t expecting, like pulling off some very thoughtful gesture toward them…doing the work behind some little thing they care about…because it makes feeling trapped and bored out of your mind a little less guilt inducing. Do something selfless and kind for them. They’ll love it, and in feeling closer, it’s easier to let go a little. It also makes your parents go…wow…she’s really grown…and what an awesome person she turned out to be! They’ll worry less about you if they can see that you have the skills to manage your own stress well.
I can relate. I just spent my first year away from home at a school I absolutely love. When I came home in May, I was already eager to go back.
Summer can seem like such a long time, but honestly, it passes in an instant. I have been fortunate enough to plan events with my long-distance friends over this summer, and that helped surpress some of the “homesickness for school” that I had been feeling. Have you been able to meet-up with some of your college friends over this summer? Is it too late or too unreasonable to consider that option?
When I came home, I started a countdown of when fall semester starts. At the start of summer, it was 108 days. Today, we’re at 38. I don’t know where the heck those 70 days went. It helps to keep yourself busy with something while at home. Help your parents with chores around the house; plan something fun to do with them. Six weeks will fly in an instant.
Also, your tangents aren’t random. I have had many of the same thoughts and feelings over the summer. As time has gone on, though, and I realized how little time is left until school starts, it’s really not all that bad. Also, you may be wishing for summertime to be here when you’re drowning in assignments come October! So, enjoy the time away from schoolwork!
Are you out to your parents? If you aren’t, and you have a good relationship, maybe you should tell them. That might make things more bearable. College will be coming soon enough. Enjoy your parents because these are the last few years you will be living with them. As far as your boring job, well, it’s part of being a teenager. Boring jobs are good, because they help you determine your personal standards. You will be fine.
You definitely have a lot of time to consider how to remedy this next summer. You could take community college classes to accelerate your degree/give you the time to get a minor maybe? If you have friends you could live with over the summer, it might be a fun mini-vacation?