This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Pace chapter.
As the semester gets crazier, I often find myself missing home. Home for me is a break from all the craziness of New York City and my busy schedule, a breath of fresh air. If you’re not lucky enough to go home whenever you want, sometimes your heart just misses home. Especially when our lives get hectic, we crave the comfort that only a childhood home can provide. Here are some tips for when you find yourself missing home.
- Get outside and find some green space. I am from a small town close to the mountains where everything in sight is green. When I am feeling a little homesick, getting outside and sitting in a park, even for five minutes helps me escape the concrete jungle and usually leaves me feeling, at least, a little bit better.
- Face-time a family member or friend. Sometimes I just really want to talk to my mom or my friend from back home. Face-timing is a great feature that allows me to keep in touch. If you have a fuzzy friend at home that you miss, you can face-time them too, provided someone helps them out of course.
- A lot of the time I find myself missing food from home. Usually, I am missing biscuits and gravy or grits. There are tons of restaurants in New York City, so finding a place that serves food that reminds you of home shouldn’t be too hard. However, you could always make yourself whatever you are craving from home. Bonus points if you use your grandmother’s recipe.
- Make yourself a cup of tea and wallow in your homesickness. Better to go ahead and let it out and work through it than let it slowly eat away at you. Look at pictures, think about what you miss, and just get it out. But then do something fun with friends after to get your mind off of it and do not allow your homesickness to continue to eat away at you.
- Realize that even though you are a college student and like half an adult, it is okay to feel this way. Home was a big part of your life and was a constant in your life. The future is unknown and frankly, a little scary at times. It is perfectly fine, normal even, to be having these feelings.