Winter break for most college students comes along with a huge mix of emotions: happy that finals are over, excited to see high school friends and family, overjoyed to sleep in your own bed and eat home cooked meals every night, but also sadness for your regular social life being over, anxiety because you no longer have a steady schedule, and the utmost depression that comes along with leaving all of your best friends from school behind you when you leave. You won’t see the people you spent 24 hours a day with every day for four whole months for at least a month and a half! How will you ever survive? Here is what separation anxiety looks like for a college student and their best friends:
Constant texts back and forth every day filling each other in on EVERYTHING
Being at the bar at home thinking it isn’t the same without your squad
Taking a tequila shot or drinking their favorite drink and Snapchatting them an obnoxious video of the whole experience
Phone calls that last hours as you give exact details about every single thing you’ve been up to