No one really warns you about this part of college.
You spend months living on your own—setting your own schedule, eating when you want, coming and going without explanation. You figure out how to manage your time, your space, and your life. Then summer comes… and suddenly you’re back in your childhood bedroom, under your parents’ roof, following rules you forgot existed.
Going home for the summer after living independently is more complicated than it sounds. Comforting and frustrating. Familiar and disorienting. And almost everyone feels conflicted about it, even if they don’t say it out loud.
Here’s the honest truth.