<p>I really thought I was okay until I went back home for winter break. Now I'm back at the dorms for Winter quarter, and I am VERY, VERY homesick. How do you deal with it? What did you guys do to get over it?</p>
<p>Friends! And, plenty junk food. ;o)</p>
<p>But, really, get out and have some fun with friends. It gets your mind off of the world. My friends and I are going for a dinner and a movie this week to treat ourselves.</p>
<p>Usually time cures homesickness, I got really homesick after summer vacation too, but after talking to my friends again, I got over it within a week or 2.</p>
<p>Classes also help take your mind off homesickness if you’re study oriented. Try to focus on your courses for the first 2 weeks and after that you probably wont even notice any homesickness.</p>
<p>Watching movies and tv episodes online is also a great way to take your mind off being homesick and kill time. This was actually the best way I used to get over being homesick during fall quarter. The first 2 days were really tough but i watched a couple of episodes of Friends a day and time just flew by and everything was fine.</p>
<p>What usually saved me was having somebody to talk to at school. Having a friend really helped me take my mind off of being at home and having to study quite a bit left me little time to think about home. </p>
<p>So, time should do the trick. Keep yourself preoccupied. It’s natural to miss home more after a break.</p>
<p>Adding to the advice of keep yourself occupied. Don’t sit in your room too much, unless you’re sleeping or you have to be in your room. I’ve found that staying in my room just makes me a recluse, which makes me not want to go out, and the cycle goes on and on.</p>
<p>Something I’ve found that helps is keeping a countdown of when I next see my family. I won’t do that this semester because I’m not seeing them until graduation, which is 4 months away. But counting down to Spring Break or whenever, as long as it’s not an obsessive countdown, is helpful to me.</p>
<p>ObvSlplss, I’m in the same boat as you. Agree with all the people above, though. You are not alone in this, let’s give it time, and call home like once a day or something, skype once a week?</p>
<p>Never gotten homesick. I don’t understand why people do because why do you want to live at your parents house with no privacy when you can be on your own, with your friends, and be more independent.</p>
<p>I call my mom everyday…
No really.
Along with keeping busy, a quick call in between classes can help ground yourself a bit. Describing what you’re up to reminds YOU that you’re actually doing some interesting things. After a while it settles and isn’t even a big deal anymore.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>It’s been a week since school’s started up again. I’m still feeling really homesick, but it’s gotten a bit better. I met some friends last quarter (super rare occurrence for me…and I really love them) that I’m growing closer to. They are making school life much better. </p>
<p>Movies and TV episodes are helping too. :)</p>
<p>I plan on calling home soon too. Talking to mom may alleviate some of this stress.</p>
<p>Glad to hear it, and calling home to check in like once a day does help</p>
<p>HDMADCK, I never got homesick either. It might be partially because I was so ready to get out of the house and really be myself. It might also have been because moving on campus for university was something I’ve spent almost my entire life in preparation for.</p>
<p>I did miss my cats, though…</p>
<p>I watched a lot of HIMYM and The Office! Haha, but I wouldn’t advise doing too much of that, because it can actually end up making you feel quite lonely (This of course makes sense, but it didn’t occur to me at the time…). </p>
<p>The things that helped me the most were: joining a club, becoming involved with the student newspaper, and reaching out to more of my classmates and hanging out with them more frequently outside of class. I actually ended up becoming really good friends with the people from one of my classes and we started having weekly movie nights. </p>
<p>Just stay busy–it will help you to stay focused on the present and the opportunities you currently have available to you instead of dwelling on your homesickness! :)</p>
<p>you should definitely follow your dream. but i have been homesick A LOT, and like EXTREMELY homesick, and i know what it feels like. but just comeback to visit every one in a while. It will feel REALLY good when you come back, trust me.its likw the best. feeling everrrrrrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>Calling my family and watching tv episodes/ movies. Also, studying took my mind off homesickness. As I had more work, I was less concerned with my feelings of homesickness.</p>
<p>Set some goals for your future. Can you achieve those goals by running back home to your parents or the comfort zone you once had? </p>
<p>Learn to like and enjoy change. Resilience is a key to survival, cultivate that skill now.</p>
<p>Lastly, make the most of your time when you do go home so you don’t regret what you didn’t do or say when you had the chance.</p>
<p>Cry. Let it all out. Talk to your friends. Don’t make rash decisions or think about moving back home and going to your local state school or community college, okay?</p>
<p>I actually talked to one of my professors - he noticed I was sad - and he helped with my homesickness!</p>
<p>I say no to the junk food and go to the gym instead! :)</p>
<p>Keep busy, and remember that these things invariably heal with time. </p>
<p>That said, I never really felt homesick, despite the fact that when I first moved out I was (literally) 10,000 miles away from home.</p>