nothing cliche plz
2007-08-25 18:05:41 · 12 answers · asked by ? 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
Make friend and get involved on campus.
If you are busy and having fun, you will not be homesick. If you sit around and think about home all the time, you'll make yourself worse.
College is amazing!!! Get up right now and go make friends. If you sit in your room then you'll never meet people.
The first month of college is the icebreaker. If you walk up to someone in your dorm right now and start talking the them, it will not be weird. Everyone wants to meet new people now. If you wait to December to start socializing, then you'll have a more difficult time.
People will have already started forming close bonds. Right now, everyone is new and potential new friend.
Get off the computer. It's still early in the evening for socializing.
2007-08-25 18:12:11 · answer #1 · answered by Answer Girl 2007 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your current environment can't compete with your home. The food and cleaning are automatic. There are people who love you and know you. You know where everything is. Sugary snacks or sweet hugs were only steps away.
But, there are advantages about being at college too. Freedom, new friends, risks, self-direction and a tenuous realization of all those responsibilities that are all yours now. Plus you get to self-actualize, make your own decisions, to study and to grow. At home, you were stifled and restricted. You weren't an adult.
There's nothing you can do to stop being homesick for now. Unfortunately, it will actually go away really fast and you'll adjust to your new life rather quickly. Then you'll be upset because you got over being homesick so fast.
2007-08-25 18:19:47 · answer #2 · answered by CHARLES T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have some stuff from home come with you. Not just knicknacks. I mean, ask your mom if you can have a placesetting of dishes. A bowl, plate and cup and glass. It's the stuff you use at home everyday that comforts you. Make sure you use your OLD pillow to sleep on. It has the smell of home inbedded into it. Use that NEW pillow on top for a nice looking bed when made. Maybe a rug that you're used to seeing at home, ask mom if you can have that shabby old thing, and she can get a NEW one (moms love new rugs..I should know- I'm a mom!) Also, ask mom for the recipie of a couple of your favorite dishes to make while away. Food is a number one comfort aspect of home. Don't forget, the best way to thwart homesickness, is to GO HOME once in a while. Even calling once a week helps, just hearing Dad's voice, or Mom drone on about your little brother or sister's grades or even how bad they've been still has a weird comfort to it.
2007-08-25 18:14:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Concentrate on your studies, join study groups, join extracurricular activities. Do what's best for you, get an education and spend some time with activities you enjoy. You will meet people with similar interests this way and you will be getting the most for your tuition dollar. You are there to learn but at your age must also have a social life. Once you meet some people with similar interests the homesickness will go away.
2007-08-25 18:23:57 · answer #4 · answered by ophirhodji 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to hang around with as many people as you can, when you connect to a few people just form like a group or something so you can hang out with them whenever you feel homesick. Get involved in a lot of activities and just try to meet as any people on campus as you can. Also, might seem a little weird, but date. With lots of girl or just one, doesn't matter, focusing your affection on somebody else other than your family helps a lot.
2007-08-25 18:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by Gabriela Grey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i was in college , i did a lot of adjustments, you have to make yourself busy, make a list of things to do in a day always so that you will have something to do, help yourself, no one can help you but yourself, make friends too, a lot are also homesick so you will really find friends easy, and make a schedule always in calling your family, so that you will have something to look forward too, and also just a suggestion, if you are having problems too don't tell your parents everything, they will only worry , show them that you can do it , that you are alright, that you are strong, this could also make you a better person, you will learn a lot from experience, and take everything as a challenge and also don't forget to pray..ask for guidance...you can do it - always put that in mind -..
2007-08-25 18:17:34 · answer #6 · answered by hotwix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try not to surround yourself with pictures and things that remind you of home, you'll miss home for sure, but the more you think about it the harder it will be. so take it down, go out and make some new friends or surround yourself with people you know. go party, work out, take a walk with someone. before you know it you'll make a bunch of new friends and you wont miss home so bad, and when you've finally shaken the homesickness hang the pictures and take out the stuff that reminds you of home.
2007-08-25 18:11:49 · answer #7 · answered by Josh B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Keep yourself busy. I went through the same thing last year. I ended up wandering around campus, trying to find my way around, exploring a bit, that whole thing. Once classes started, I just focused on my schoolwork until I was used to the routine. By then, I was fine.
2007-08-25 20:03:11 · answer #8 · answered by vfaulkon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find some really good friends. Learn about your new surroundings. Call home often. Join some clubs or get a part time job.
2007-08-25 18:09:42 · answer #9 · answered by Shon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
call home and remember no matter how sick you are it will never be the same going back things change and people change. just keep in touch and that is all i can tell you til itrides out.
2007-08-29 16:26:30 · answer #10 · answered by Tsunami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋