Lifestyle Summer
Alright, you?ve been home long enough for the nostalgia to wear off, and you?re reminded of why you decided to go to school so far away in the first place. Your friends from home are people for whom you?ll always have the softest of spots. You?ve grown up with them, and they?re like family to you. Their homes feel like yours, and vice versa. But you reach a limit when you?re stuck in their all-too-familiar houses for days on end. It feels like the old high school routine ? one that was maxed out long before you graduated. Just sometimes, you?ve got to get away. They?ll give you slack for always hanging out with your college friends (?you see them all the time!?). But there are more ways to remove yourself, to seek some time apart while keeping those old relationships as strong as they were at senior prom.
- The family card. When you?re home from college, your family owns all of the rights to you. Whether it?s ?family dinner? or needing to watch your brother?s soccer game, family calls. There never seems to be an end to the activities you can?t do as a family when you?re at college! Plus, no one?s going to argue with the necessity of familial bonding.
- Unpacking. Everyone knows that there?s no such thing as finishing your unpacking when you get home from college. By the time you?ve sorted everything into the right drawers and closets, it?s time to start folding it back into your suitcase. So when you need an excuse, do some unpacking! It?s time consuming, and you need to anyway.
- Your internship. Your friends know when you?re at your internship, dressed differently and unable to iMessage or instagram. But there are always things you can be doing for your internship when you?re at home after hours. There is research to be done, people to be contacted, and meetings to be had. It?s pretty much an around-the-clock job. You?ve got to be the best intern you can be ? especially when it?s convenient for your self-preservation.
- Exploring your hometown. Being at college makes you love and appreciate your hometown that much more than before. Whether you?re showing your college friends around when they come to visit, or simply appreciating what you never did as a resident, you?ve got to spend quality time with your geographical roots. Becoming a part-time resident makes you feel more like a visitor, one who has to spend lots of time soaking it all in. Alone, perhaps.
- Your aversion to high school social events. If your friends are at a high school party, a big one, it?s an easy opt out. It?s completely understandable ? and often universal ? to feel ?awkward? or ?uncomfortable? at large gatherings of old peers. It was a different lifetime, perhaps one you don?t want to relive!
- A dedication to exercise. For many collegiates, you?ve either gotten in shape by frequenting your school?s new gym, or you?ve packed on the freshman (/sophomore/ junior/ senior) fifteen. Either way, if you?re looking for an excuse for your absence, hit the gym! Or perhaps without the luxury of your college?s facilities, a run outside. It?s always an admirable time suck.
- Or a dedication to your art. Maybe you?ve discovered a new skill at school, or just become more focused on one you already had. ?I can?t, I?m working on a piece? is always a good excuse. Note: You may not be able to convince them you need time to work on your tweets.
- Hungover and recovering. If there?s anything your friends understand, it?s recovering from last night and needing some time to detox. This excuse is derived from your participation in a recent social event, so you?re off the hook for at least another day. You?re not superman, your friends can?t expect you to have everlasting energy (or tolerance).
- The college visit. If you attend a college that?s relatively easy to get to, you might have to pay it a visit or two over the summer! There are always things to sort out on campus: your on-campus room, your subletters, your campus job, the annual beach-themed party, the works. Your friends will understand; they?ll be doing it too.
- Do something that you know your friends won?t want to do, but invite them to it. They can?t blame you for not hanging out with them, and you don?t have to hang out with them. Maybe their school is in the big city, while you?re off in rural Maine, so you can go invite them on a hardcore hike. ?Maybe you?re an art history major, and you?re excited to go to your local gallery with a newfound knowledge base, while your friends have no desire to go for a seventh time. Just invite them anyway.
- Doctor?s appointments. Summers and breaks are the time to deal with health problems you?ve put on hold. Your familiar doctors surround you, and you can finally get each abnormality checked out. No one questions the importance of a doctor?s appointment, especially when we understand how rarely we get the chance to make one. Health always comes first!
- Being perpetually broke. If your friends are going to dinner and a movie, pull the broke card. After all, you can get dinner at home for nothing, and you definitely didn?t choose that internship for the pay. Not to mention gas money (or Metrocard value, for some). It?s not your fault if you?re trying to be thrifty!
- Catching up on long-needed sleep. The first few weeks of summer are dedicated to seeing your family, seeing your friends, and relaxing. There?s a reasonable chance you?ve even got a cold to recover from that you?ve been dealing with since the middle of April. You can sleep into the afternoon without feeling guilty about it, and fall asleep early simply because you can. Everyone understands the need to maximize these rare instances of available sleep; in fact, they?ll probably be inspired to follow your lead.
After you try all of these things, hang out with your friends from home. They?ve probably tried the list, too. These are mostly good things to be doing this summer anyway, as well as hanging out with your oldest pals. You only get a few months with them a year, and you know they?re some of the best friends you?ll ever have.
Source: http://inthecac.com/2013/06/19/a-mid-summer-list-of-ways-to-avoid-your-friends-at-home/
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