Every Thanksgiving my family gets together for a big meal – surprise, surprise! All the guys fall asleep watching football and the girls drink too many pumpkin martinis. This year I’m making it my goal to try every type of pie offered. – Kayla Maiuri
Going home to Georgia! For the past three years or so, my family has gone to the Italian restaurant Maggiano’s for our Thanksgiving Feast. I swear, it’s delicious. HUGE portions of family style pasta, turkey, stuffing, and all sorts of stuff. So delicious. – Stefani Robinson
I’ll be spending the day with my family. We usually have typical Thanksgiving with A LOT of food, but what I look forward to every year is the day after Thanksgiving. My friends and I have a pot luck dinner with all the leftovers! I love having a day to be thankful for my family and a day to be thankful for my friends, especially now that we’re all at different colleges. – Erin Appenzoller
I am the lost puppy of Thanksgiving. As a California native, getting home for such a short holiday puts quite a strain on the family bank account. So every year I go whimpering and begging to a close friend to take me in for the weekend and feed me delicious food. Next thing you know I’m going to Leominster, Mass. or Montvale, New Jersey or Saratoga Springs, New York for turkey and stuffing and surrogate families who have always been generous enough to open their homes to me. An East Coast Thanksgiving may be snowier than I’m used to, but it’s certainly never any less warm. – Andrea Shea
For the past couple of years, my Dad has been a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We always go to the city the night before to watch the balloons get blown up, and then on Thanksgiving we watch the parade and spend the day with family. – Sara Wynkoop
It’s a tradition for my dad’s side of the family to go to center city Philadelphia for the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. We wake up early, buy out Dunkin Donuts, squeeze all thirty of us on a train, and spend the entire morning at the parade. It’s a really awesome way to catch up with relatives and watch my younger cousins grow up. We’ve been doing it since my older sister was born, so it’s a tradition I’m really thankful for! – Kate Lagreca
I’m going home to Georgia!!! I haven’t been for the past two Thanksgivings and I’m SUPER excited for it. My best friend is Canadian, and celebrates Thanksgiving in October or something, so her family hosts “Fakesgiving”. The day before Thanksgiving, all our friends get together at her house for a feast and several rounds of DDR (because we obviously still live in 2004.) My mom’s birthday is always the week of Thanksgiving, so we’ll probably keep the festivities going throughout the weekend – and by festivities, I mean putting up Christmas trees at both my houses by myself, because my sister is no help at all. Sorry, Cristina, it’s true! – Lorena Mora
I’m celebrating with my family at my house. We don’t have any specific traditions, just good times with the family. My boyfriend will be spending Thanksgiving with us this year, so that will be interesting. — Sarah Dwyer
I’m not sure if my family is doing a big dinner this year. We may even go out to eat :O — Regina Moglievskaya
I’m from Albany, NY– really not a long trip home!–, but I was invited to stay with my friend in Worcester this break. So I’ll be doing that. And of course I’ll be doing some Black Friday shopping. — Ben Lindsay