<p>How did you het over the freshman blues/homesickness?</p>
<p>I'm not in college yet, but from what my cousins/college friends tell me...the secret is to keep as busy as possible! Some of my friends are amazed that their freshman year of college will be ending in just a few short weeks.</p>
<p>stay away from home for a significant period of time prior to going to college</p>
<p>be immersed in the college life--classes, friends, activities, etc</p>
<p>Yeah that helped me. I took a summer class and then did an engineering internship at my college before freshman year. That helped a lot. I still went home every weekend for the summer b/c I had a job but still the transition wasn't as shocking. Get to know a few people well right away so that way you can have someone to talk to. Try to stay healthy. Usually actual sickness leads to homesickness too.</p>
<p>Well one of my dad's main points for me not leaving home is i could get hurt. can't fly jome everyweeked</p>
<p>How did you guys convince the 'rents to let you go out of state?</p>
<p>It wans't an issue. I would hope that (barring financial reasons) if a school fit a person and they wanted to go there, the parents would be fine with it.</p>
<p>I never had any homesickness or freshman blues.</p>
<p>Don't you live within an hour of home though? Same here BTW</p>
<p>I'm a bit worried about that myself, considering I'll be attending a school about as far away as is possible within the same country. </p>
<p>Hawaii + Pennsylvania - Mommy = big move. ;)</p>
<p>Make friends at the college who live close by and go with them when they go home so at least you will be able to do laundry for free and such.</p>
<p>"I would hope that (barring financial reasons) if a school fit a person and they wanted to go there, the parents would be fine with it."</p>
<p>The schools does offer financial aid, but my dad makes over $100,000/year. Both my parents recenty went back to college and got thier Bacloer's degrees.</p>
<p>So..</p>
<p>i live 2 hours from home, but i barely go visit. i've been home twice in the past three months.</p>
<p>I never got home sick.. during the Summer before I went to college, I tried to be as independent as I could. Talk to your parents if they don't want you to be so independent because it is definitely a shock when you are all of a sudden on your own. I live 40 minutes away and I go home about once or twice every 2 months</p>
<p>Am I the odd one that likes school better than home? I've made the best friends here ever. I live four hours from home but haven't been in four months.</p>
<p>no, I like school way better than home. I get so bored when I go home and there is always something going on when I'm at school.</p>
<p>Well my school kept me plenty busy and I didn't go home between leaving and Christmas. I went to montreal, quebec from Seattle washington, so it was a ways away. The only time I got a bit homesick was around family birthdays. but yeah.</p>
<p>(1): DO NOT spend all your time IM-ing and emailing friends from home or on the phone w/ HS friends. This prevents you from making college friends and thus you're lonely when everyone cliques w/ new friends--leaving you time to think about how homesick you are and how good you had it w/ your friend group from HS.</p>
<p>(2): Talk to your parents but not excessively. You have to develop your own life and this is harder to do if you feel compelled to call your parents 5 times a day to tell them every single thing that has happened to you in the last 3 hrs.</p>
<p>(3): If college is close to home, DO NOT go home every weekend. This prevents you from developing an active social life/bond with people at school and when those times happen when you have no schoolwork to do but can't go home, you're going to be lonely and homesick.</p>
<p>Basically, don't hang on to the past too much. Remember you have all of Thanksgiving & winter break to talk to your HS friends and tell them every detail about college--its gonna be harder to do that if you have no college details because all you did was interact with people from home. Soon you'll be at the point where you won't want to leave college [or you'll just be satisfied with going home for 2 days because home will seem boring].</p>
<p>Thanks for the imput</p>