3 Things You Don't Appreciate Until You Get to College

By Jordan Bissell on August 25, 2014

The day has come.  You have moved into a cinderblock closet-sized dorm room, hung up your Beatles Abbey Road poster, and hung your student ID lanyard firmly around your neck.  You are officially a college student.  Welcome to (almost) real life.  Now that you’re comfortably feasting on Ramen and taking notes on ant-sized university desks, you may soon realize how incredible life-at-home was.  Here are 3 things you probably don’t appreciate about home life until you get to college…

1.  A Reappearing Supply of Food

Chances are, at home you had food in the fridge and the pantry.  And chances are, one or both of your parents went grocery shopping when rations ran low.  Now that you’re in charge of your own mini fridge, YOU are the only one responsible for running to the grocery store and buying food when you get down to chunky milk and a moldy doughnut.

2.  Mature Advice

While you may have resisted the unsolicited advice of your parents while still in high school, you will probably miss their unique points of view now that you’re in college.  Your friends may counsel you when you have a crisis, but there’s nothing quite like the advice of someone who has gone through many many years of life.  Of course, you can still call home if you need answers, but somehow it’s just not the same.  Also, they’re more likely to prompt you not to skip that pesky 9am class then your friends are…

3.  Utilities

Though you may be lucky enough to have swank bathrooms (I’m looking at you, private college kids), most people will have bathrooms that are far inferior to what you have at home.  I’m talking layers of mold, other students’ hairs on the walls, and only enough water pressure to dampen the top layer of your hair.  At home, you most likely have a better bathroom situation.

Even if you’re living it up in college, nothing compares to family.  Call your mom or dad and just tell them “thank you” or “I love you” every once in a while.  It will make their day!

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