Contributor Tokiwa T. Smith offers a few ideas for taking advantage of the free time your holiday break affords you without losing progress in college.
Re-adjusting to Home: 3 Tips for College Winter Break
Being back under your parents roof for the winter break is a challenge, especially for college freshmen. Even students that think of home as their comfort zone have trouble adjusting. You feel like a guest. You feel like your parents aren’t realizing that you’re a grown up. All of a sudden, you miss your cramped […]
Home for the Holidays: How to Handle the Stress of Returning Home From College
As Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz once famously said, “There’s no place like home.” While it’s true that home provides a feeling of familiarity, reliability, comfort, love, and much more, your sentiments about coming home might be quite different from Dorothy’s if you’re a college freshman. Truth be told, after being away at college […]