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"Hey Guys!  The most frequently asked question I get by readers is if I ever get homesick. The truth is that everyone gets homesick! Whether you&amp;#039;re an hour or thousands of miles away from home, everyone experiences it at some point! One of my best friends from high school went three hours away from home. She was so homesick the first few weeks, that she came home her first weekends in college! In contrast, I didn&amp;#039;t really get homesick until November. Not because I didn&amp;#039;t miss home, but because I was so busy the first few weeks of college. I never really sat down and thought about home until right before Thanksgiving break. Something about knowing I was going home just set me off. I got really upset to the point that I legitimately cried when I petted a dog because it made me miss my own so much! It was that bad.  When you get homesick you have a couple options for how to make yourself feel better. The first would be to keep yourself busy. Join some clubs and throw yourself into your schoolwork. If you&amp;#039;re preoccupied and invested in your new home, it makes it harder to stop and think about how much you miss your old one. The second is to find comfort items. Comfort items are different for everyone, and you might not even figure out what yours is until you experience homesickness for the first time! Some people find comfort in photos of home, for others its in stuffed animals they can give a squeeze every now and again. For me, it&amp;#039;s a ring that I wear everyday. I call it my Montana ring because the stone can only be found in Montana. Whenever I get homesick I look down at my hand and I feel like I&amp;#039;m carrying a part of my home with me. It really works! Just figure out what brings you comfort, and don&amp;#039;t be ashamed to cling to it when you&amp;#039;re feeling down.  Sometimes, however, those tricks don&amp;#039;t work, and you just find yourself in a funk. This happened to my friend Zac. He really missed home, so we decided to help! My floor mates and I organized a little mini party for him in our lounge. Since he&amp;#039;s from Chicago, we decorated the lounge in Bears colors, ordered some deep dish pizza, printed out photos of his dogs from Facebook, and surprised him for the Bears vs. Packers football game in the fall. He loved it! Everyone knows how hard it can be to miss home, so if you have a friend going through a particularly rough patch, try and cheer them up! Sometimes all they need to know is that someone at school cares. Homesickness is something every college student goes through, but everyone experiences it differently. You might get it in the first few weeks or not until later in the semester. You might find comfort in a teddy bear or you might not be able to get over it without a little help from your friends. And of course the best cure for homesickness? Call home. Don&amp;#039;t forget - they miss you too! The missing comes in waves, and, over time, you&amp;#039;ll adjust. Its all part of the college experience! &amp;amp;lt;3 Jenna What do you do to fight any homesickness you&amp;#039;ve experienced in college? Sound off in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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