“My flight home is Friday afternoon,” I said to my boss while figuring out the schedule for the following week. Her questioning look made me pull unfortbly at my scrub top. “Uh, I mean my flight to school.” Her reaction wasn’t uncalled for; I was home. I was staying in the bedroom I’d been living in since the first grade, seeing the friends and family I had grown up with, and working at the veterinary hospital where I had been working since my sophomore year of high school. To everyone in Boston, that was my home…but it’s hard to call something home when you live out of a suitcase while you’re there.
   I live exactly 1,259 miles from where I go to school, so it’s easy see why I don’t exactly go home on the weekends. At school, I have an amazing team and coaches for the sport I play, great friends, an extremely welcoming place of worship and a series of boys that have yet to work out (but I’m still hopeful). Sure, Boston has my past, but it’s hard to call a place I have so much invested into now anything but home.
   College is funny that way. You grow to become new person in a new place, and it’s hard not to see it as home and that’s OK. You have started your own life in the place you choose for yourself, and you no longer have mom and dad looking over your shoulder telling you what to do. College is the first time in your life that you are making your own decisions and living with whatever the results are. Be proud of the fact that school feels like home because it’s supposed to.
   If you’re like me and don’t know where exactly to call home, don’t worry. You’re not the only one. It’s OK to love your hometown and your college town and to call them both home. You have memories that will last forever in both, and you should be able to embrace that. Having two homes only means that you love two places where your life has brought you joy and people you love. Continue to love wherever you call home, and don’t let anyone let you feel guilty for it.
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