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When You Get Home For Summer Vacation

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bentley chapter.

Yeah, you probably haven’t unpacked yet either. Your bins bags and boxes will most likely be sitting in your basement, and your duffel bags chilling next to your closet for the next few weeks until that one day when you can’t anything to watch on Netflix and finally unpack due to boredom. When you first arrived to school in the fall, everything you packed was organized into their own  baskets, you knew where everything was and unpacking it all was a breeze! That’s not the case now… you’re lucky if you’re able to find most of your underwear in the same spot. 

You must be glad to be home, no more exams, no more final papers, no more group projects and presentations. Just your comfy bed, free food, sunshine, and Netflix. 

But then you realize you have no idea what to watch on Netflix. Last summer you binged watched Grey’s, and you were able to fit in episodes of Kimmy Schmidt season two in between group meetings, but what’s next…

You wonder how you’re going to fit all your clothes back into your closet/dresser… maybe it’s time for a purge? Purging your wardrobe that is. You make a day of it, toss things into a pile that you haven’t worn in a year (that’s the rule isn’t it?), dig up some cute shorts (that RIP don’t fit you anymore), find that sweater you could’ve used for the last theme party – and in the end only end up donating three things. 

Wonder if you should start a collection of Bentley textbooks to show your grandkids one day, because the bookstore didn’t take them back.

Remember that you rented half of your books a little too late and scramble to send them back to Amazon. 

Treasuring the free days you have until you have to start working for the summer. Savoring every day you don’t have to set an alarm, or plan meals, or base your activities a 9-5 job. 

Thinking about spending time with the fam since you haven’t seen them since January – then unfortunately remember how unbearable hanging out with your sister really is. 

Waiting for your friends to come home from school patiently, only to realize you don’t want to do half of the things you did in high school. All the old hang outs are littered with high schoolers, and now you just look forward to the “sorry I have to cancel” text to give yourself more Netflix time. 

Working towards that summer bod at the gym, since you have so much free time now, right? But you have to drive to the gym now… so…. let’s see if that actually happens.

Hi, my name is Molly! I'm currently the Co-President and a Campus Correspondent for Bentley University's HC chapter.