<p>I'm a freshman and I moved in on August 18, and classes started last monday, Aug 23. I already want to go home. I love my roommates, we all get along and hang out when we dont have classes. but i'm just really homesick. i'm even going home this friday because its a 3day weekend, but honestly i dont even wanna come back here..</p>
<p>so how long did it take your freshman year to become comfortable with living away from home?</p>
<p>First day. I hate it back home. </p>
<p>Also did you not do any summer camps or anything as a kid?</p>
<p>^the only camp i went to lasted only 5 days lol. so i guess no, i didnt.</p>
<p>& im super close to my family, if that counts for anything.
it seems harder to make friends here for some reason.</p>
<p>I was kind of homesick at first, but I think that was just the nervousness of actually starting college. After a few weeks, I did consider my dorm as “home.”</p>
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Seriously. I thought everybody on CC had been to one of those talent search camps.</p>
<p>I think you just have to remember the fact that you chose this school for some reason. Obviously something about it appealed to you, and you should remember that. I’m only a senior in high school, and I’m also super close to my family, and will be going to school pretty far away from home, so I know that I will get homesick. However, I know that I would hate myself if I decided to leave within the first week, and I’m pretty sure you would feel the same way. Just think about what you would do after you left. Try to remember that everyone is probably feeling this way and that, hopefully, things will be better. And, I guess, if after a while things are still not better, than there are probably some kinds of services at your school which can help with this process 
Good luck!</p>
<p>Josephina gave really good advice. I don’t get homesick usually, but sometimes there are other reasons I wish I wasn’t here and you just have to remind yourself about why you chose to go there in the first place. It sort of puts things in perspective. </p>
<p>What IS hard for me is going back and forth between home and school. If i am at school, I am fine. It is when I go home and have to come back that I get upset and miss my family. It is hard to shift back and forth from home and college, and doing so too much prevents you from adjusting “college” and “home” to the same thing-- leading to prolonged homesickness. Try to avoid the temptation to go home too often. It helps.</p>
<p>A couple of months. It didn’t take long to adjust to the independence, but dealing with new people is hard. I define adjusted as having a good group of friends, comfortable academically, established in a club, know your way around campus and know a few professors. As in, you now view college as “home.” </p>
<p>The social aspect took the longest for me. </p>
<p>I still get a bit homesick here and there, mainly because I am starting to grow apart from people back home and miss my parents. Just living on your own doesn’t take long to adjust to, basically you do it yourself or it doesn’t get done.</p>
<p>just something to think about–</p>
<p>a lot of times, when first year students think about “going home” they are thinking about the way things were during senior year, and don’t realize everything has changed.</p>
<p>You’re not in high school any more. Neither are your friends. They are away at college. Chances are, if you were to go home and stay home, you’d be bored out of your gourd in no time. Chances are, if you were to stay home, you’d be chafing at the restrictions and rules and sameness and boredom in no time.</p>
<p>Give yourself and your new life a chance to blossom. Don’t give up on yourself too quickly. You made successful transitions in the past–to kindergarten, elementary school, high school—and while sometimes the new surroundings and social structure were stressful, you survived and eventually blossomed–or else you would not be where you are now.</p>
<p>So give yourself the gifts of time and patience.</p>
<p>took me 20 minutes .</p>
<p>@boysx3</p>
<p>I definitely agree. There were some days where I felt like going home from being bored because I hadn’t really made any friends yet, but I couldn’t because I live too far away. But eventually I found a great group of friends and was loving it there.</p>
<p>After the first month I became comfortable, but I didn’t truly consider it my “home” until January. I hope that fact doesn’t worry you - I’m really close to my family. Hang in there. If you still feel unhappy when the adjustment period passes then maybe you could begin to consider other options (transfer, see the school’s counseling center, etc). It gets better, I promise. Good luck!</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, what school are you at?</p>
<p>Probably at least a semester. I didn’t really want to come back in January, but by February I was all adjusted.</p>
<p>About a quarter</p>
<p>A few weeks. </p>
<p>However second semester even though I had better friends and had fully adjusted the first time I wanted to go home much more often. But I don’t feel like that’s the norm. I was really sick and had only been let out of the hospital to go back to school. The medicine I was on was messing with my emotions.</p>
<p>However, I do suggest staying on campus for labor day. Going home then going back will make it tougher.</p>
<p>thanks everyone sooo much. all the things you guys are saying are things my sisters and parents keep telling me when i say i want to go back home. i really wanna stick it out the whole four years, its just been kinda hard to get used to.</p>
<p>@ginab591, yeah i know i shouldnt go back for labor day, but my fam already planned it and we’re having a get together since my cousin is a freshman and hes going back for the weekend too. </p>
<p>@einstein10, i dont feel comfortable saying where i am for confidentiality reasons lol. but its one of the Cal States.</p>