<p>I've been on campus since Wednesday and I miss home/family sooo much! My three suite mates aren't here yet and classes haven't started so I feel like when I get busy and around people regularly it won't be bad and classes start Monday so I'm hoping I'll be too busy with that and work and research to be sad anymore, but right now all I can think about is getting on the next thing smoking back home (which would suck because then I'd feel guilty about quitting).</p>
<p>Aside from missing my mom (who's my best friend) like crazy, I miss my old routine back at home that I went through practically every day.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I love my family.
But when I moved out at 18, I was ready to move out.
When I go home on leave I can only stay for a week before I want to leave and get back to my own home/life/work.
Best thing to do is learn to love your independance.</p>
<p>Wasn’t homesick to begin with. Like StraightsJacket I love my family, but I was ready to be on my own and away from my parents last year when I first got to campus. My mom basically spent the summer before I started college trying to control me and placing making stupid curfews. I was just ready to be gone and on my own. I move back into the dorms on wednesday and i’m looking forward to it. Hopefully next year i’ll be able to get an apartment and finally move all of my stuff out of my moms. I love my parents and I appreciate everything they’ve done for me, but like my brother and sister before me i’m ready to be on my own and excited about whats next.</p>
<p>I was homesick for a bit until classes started me. Trust me, it’s normal to feel homesick - some people do and some people don’t. But once classes starts and you star meeting new friends and getting into the grooves of things, this will become your new routine. Come next summer, you probably won’t want to go back. :P</p>
<p>I was homesick for about a month my first semester, but I was a bit of a homebody back then. Doing classwork and getting involved really does take your mind off of things. It’ll be okay eventually.</p>
<p>I understand the feeling OP. I was and still am very close to my mom. But for me it took about a month. And that was one hell of a month- I didnt think I would make it. But now i am more mature and am entering sophomore year at a new school.</p>
<p>I haven’t been homesick at all, but I’ve talked to my parents like every day through either facebook or on the phone.</p>
<p>I’m also going home next weekend and seeing a couple of friends before they leave for college.</p>
<p>But, yeah. I’m not homesick at all. I was before I left. I like cried three nights in a row, and then I got here, and I fell in love and I’ve just been so busy and it feels like I’ve been here forever.</p>
<p>Just wait until people get there and things will be better.</p>
<p>When I was a freshmen I think the most home sick part was actually leaving the house, but once classes started, etc… I adapted to everything. It was easy for me to adapt since I like the school. Now as a sophmore I adapted to being home for the summer, but once I move in and I know my family is back at home I will feel as if I never left ( or at least that long).</p>
<p>Once your suitemates get there and classes start you will feel better. I went through homesickness bouts throughout my whole first year. Once you get into a routine though, it won’t be as bad. I’m very close to my family as well, but for me, the problem was just being in a whole new place basically alone. I go back in a week, and I’m sure it’s going to take some time for me to readjust, too, but I rely on having a routine to bring me out of my funk.</p>
<p>I was probably the most homesick after I visited home unexpectedly a couple weeks after the semester started. But I eventually got over it. I still got random bits of homesickness but it was never anything serious. Now I can’t wait to move in today.</p>
<p>It surprised me, but I wasn’t homesick at all. I’d barely been away before, and I get on well with my family, but I just like uni more than home. (But it is nice to go back eventually)</p>
<p>My university did a good job of keeping the freshmen occupied for the first week, so I was simply too busy to be homesick. It wasn’t until the weekend after classes started, when I had nothing to do and my roommate had left to visit home, that I truly felt alone and called home in tears. That Monday, I signed up for an P/F seminar and a few clubs I quickly fell in love with. I was never bored or lonely enough to feel homesick again.</p>
<p>I think I’m gonna transfer out next semester. Had we been able to have academic advising during the summer to map out the semesters and see how long it’d take to finish since they just revised their graduation requirements and they weren’t made available online until it was too late to go to another school. It’ll take me 3.5-4 years to finish here even though I’m already a sophomore!<br>
I actually feel a lot better now after making the decision especially after seeing how big my classes are gonna be for the next 2 years here.</p>