What can I do to battle homesickness?
So when you are home sick, the first thing you need to recognize is ," Yes. I'm home sick". But the other thing you need to think about now is "how can I medicate myself?" Now, there are some students who drink their home sickness away, drug their home sickness away, sucks their home sickness away, internet their home sickness away, message their home sickness away, or cell phone their home sickness away. But I say, you need to medicate in moderation and so if you missed those things at home, go home. Maybe, a month into the semester or just for a couple of days or at the weekend. Don't go home every week-end as that's over medicating yourself. You need to recognize that's not you anymore. You need to do some things to help get yourself over that home sickness, and to really get refueled so that you can come back and get out of that uncomfortable and unnaturally uncomfortable change. So medicated moderation recognizes it's not any more and then follow that map, that plan. Of how you're going to find your place and make your new home, a real home; a home that will eventually make you sick to leave once you maybe graduate, I don't know, six – seven years?
