Why You Should Appreciate Your Family Visiting

A lot of times when your family comes to visit you at college, the experience is hectic and stressful, from the preparation until the send off you can constantly feel as though you must impress them to the best of your abilities.  Whether that means having an immaculate dorm room, or dressing like you’re going to an interview, we all want to show our families that we’re doing fine all by ourselves thanks.  The unfortunate part of this is that we often forget to enjoy the time that we get to spend with our families and instead spend that time irritated just waiting for them to leave.  

Why is it a good thing that your family is coming to visit you?

1. Well for starters you’ll most likely get free food out of the deal.

        When your family comes to visit they will likely ask you what restaurants you would like to eat out, and what place is good.  Now, for most of us, we will just give them a questioning look since it’s not like we go out to nice restaurants with our friends(we’ve probably spent the past few weeks eating microwave frozen meals or crying about croads).  Just think about how great a nice dinner will taste, even though we all know a homecooked meal would be the best.  

2. They’re genuinely excited to see you.

        It might feel weird to think that you could have not always gotten along with your family, and then all of the sudden they miss you so much that they have to tell you about it-everyday.  But when someone is genuinely excited to see you, it feels good.  Your family loves and appreciates you, and when you go to a large school you can often forget that there are people who care about your well-being.  

3. You get to show them who you have become.

        Now don’t you go and tell me you haven’t been changing on an hourly basis during your time at college, I’m sure your family knows that you have been as well.  But, they’re probably excited and interested in seeing who you have been becoming, and how this experience is helping you grow.  I know that it is almost an instinct to put on this act and try to show them just how successful you have become, and how busy you are, but they’ll probably be happier just to see what you have really been doing with your time.