5 Tips to Battle Homesickness
Hello everybody, and welcome to my (Katie) first individual post! I hope you guys liked June's picture and her own personal post. She was actually going to write about homesickness on Monday, but I stole her topic :) I was also supposed to post yesterday....(wow I'm bad at this)
Anyways! Homesickness. It's a real thing! I have been at Smith College for over a month now, and I am homesick. For the first few weeks, I was like, "PSHHH. These weenies are homesick. I AM NOT HOMESICK NOR WILL I EVER BE!!!!!" wow....I was a little turd...BECAUSE I AM HOMESICK NOW
I am now one of these "weenies" who miss my mommy and daddy and older sissy :( Maybe it's because I'm super close with my family, or maybe it's because I'm 3,000 miles away from home. I'm here at Smith, and they're all the way in some fantasy land called Los Angeles.
Now, I learned how to cope with homesickness, after my breakdown...So a couple nights ago, I was reading a letter from my family (they were being all super nice and cuddly and telling me that they love me-I know, I have the best family ever) and then all of a sudden, I just started sobbing. All my school stress and personal stuff going on coupled with my homesickness was not fun. I ended up locking myself in the bathroom and hysterically crying. And then I went outside for some fresh air (and so I could stop acting like a weenie). I sat on the porch swing and just sat there, until angels of kindness came to cheer me up. One of the upperclassmen came out and gave me a kit kat (Thank you Stella!) and a bunch of my other friends (I'm looking at you my Chuckett lunch pals) took care of me and made me happy again. So here are my 5 Tips To Battle Homesickness
1) Don't kid yourself. If you feel small inklings of homesickness, just be like, "yup, I miss home. Now let me move on with my life." Don't do what I did and perpetually lie to yourself about being sad.Â
2) Don't suffer in silence. Someone else is most likely homesick too. Bask in your sadness together and then bond and have fun with that person to combat your sadness.
3) Talk to an upperclassmen. At Smith College, we live in houses. So the house community is pretty nice and tight knit. Everywhere you look, there's an upperclassmen willing to help you out. Just seek one out, and they'll cheer you up. Also, I bet they have better advice than I do
4) Keep contact with your hometown family and friends. But don't constantly compare your new college home to your old home. Your hometown will win-and then you'll be sad. It's time for us to adapt y'all.Â
5) Unfortunately, you will get homesick eventually. If you need to cry-just cry. Or eat chocolate, or I dunno...do something. Once you let it out, you'll feel much better. Just don't hysterically sob in a locked bathroom (heh...cause like, that never happened to me or anything XD)
And that's it! If these 5 hints are horrible and incredibly inacurate---I'm a first-year... what do I know! If these help, then...yay! I like being helpful.Â
Alrighty....this is all I've got to say for now....erm...ok. Then End.Â
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