<p>I was accepted to a good school 1500 miles away from home and loved it when I visited for orientation earlier this summer. However, as move-in day approaches I'm starting to wonder if I made the right decision. Everytime I think about leaving my friends and family behind I start crying which for me is extremely unusually(I am not an emotional person). Any tips on dealing with my emotions and keeping my composure?</p>
<p>Well, it’s too late to change now. Just suck it up and hope for the best, make an effort to think positively. The time for doubts has long passed. You’re stuck there for at least one semester, so you’d better make the best of it.</p>
<p>If you do end up not liking it, you can always transfer. But there’s no point worrying about that until you get there.</p>
<p>First, let yourself have a good cry…it’s cathartic!</p>
<p>Remember that it’s just not you leaving…the community you have been so familiar with is undergoing a huge change too. It’s not just you going away to college…your old friends are going away too, and “home” is not going to be the same.</p>
<p>A girl on our old street came home from college only 10 days after leaving for a school about 250 miles away…10 days after she came home, she was even unhappier, because the high school life she had idealized in her mind no longer existed. A lot of her friends were away at college. Those friends who had stayed home were also involved in their own college experience because the local school and the local CC had started the week before she had left, so she could not enroll in the current semester. Her daytime babysitting gig had evaporated with the children being back in school.</p>
<p>You don’t want to be that girl. So look forward to your new experiences and your new life.</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re just starting your homesickness early. You’re probably anxious about a whole new life which is completely normal. Just tell yourself to stick it out for at least a month. It took me about three weeks to feel comfortable at school and about three months to actually really like it there. Also as boysx3 said, a good cry really does work well for releasing your emotions and feeling better.</p>