Have not been away from home much and now you are heading off to college. You know you have heard of others quitting school, coming back home and just getting a job to ease their minds. Do you want to be the next coming home? The following are some ideas, tricks, and tips just in case you are feeling home sick and ways to cure your self.

Use the email – fast, effective means of communicating with anyone back home. You can write letters everyday to some one different and have email coming to you everyday – keeping you up to date on all the happenings. If you do not have a computer in your dorm, or in your dorm room – check out the library, use a free email account, easy to set up and use.

Call home – calling and talking to whom ever you miss the most will make you feel good inside. Hearing actual words and realizing that you are missed as well, does make you feel wanted and more confident about your self while you have to be away from home.

Sending post cards – allowing yourself to express your need to let someone know you care releases stress with in you alleviating some stress about being away from home.

Have your local newspaper delivered to your dorm room / mailbox at the college. You will be able to read about all the happenings in your hometown, and keep up on current events.

Go home once a month for the first five or six months – just over night on the weekend. You will slowly notice that nothing much will change while you are away at school, and you may even notice that you feel more at home ‘away’ at your dorm as you make friends and new acquaintances. 

Write your feelings down in a journal, expressing every emotion that you are going through at the time. Go back once every two weeks or so and reread what you have written since you have been at college. You will notice that even on the continued ‘homesick’ days, you will not be as sad or depressed as you once were. You will notice your life getting better and you will feel better deep inside.

Visit your hometown page on the web, looking through pictures and reading local news stories will keep you in touch will your feelings for home.

Hang out with new friends that you have made at school – swapping stories of back home, talking about things you did, plan on doing or things going on there will strengthen your bond with your new friend while helping your keep in touch with your feelings for home.

Students that get homesick will generally feel better as time goes on, and as your schedule gets more hectic, you will with for home as a stress relief!