{"id":35220,"date":"2025-02-06T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=35220"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:11:45","slug":"homesickness-in-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/columnist\/homesickness-in-third-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesickness in Third Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before coming back to uni for my final year, I was practically itching to get back. I love my family very dearly, but after living without them for most of the year, it\u2019s easy to miss the lifestyle you\u2019ve built away from them when you move back over the summer. However, once I moved into my new house, and my mum had left me to go home, this overwhelming feeling of emptiness and anxiety overcame me. I felt so lonely and all I wanted was for her to come pick me up and take me back home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was feeling these mixture of emotions, I wondered why I felt so homesick when I\u2019ve done this for the past few years with ease. But still, the homesickness creeps in and makes me doubt everything. You just assume that once you have done this for a few years, you would get used it, but you don&#8217;t, and nobody really talks about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s been a few months, and I\u2019ve settled into my routines again, I\u2019m feeling a lot less homesick. Granted, I did go home for reading week, which always helps. But the feeling hasn\u2019t just disappeared, it\u2019s still there, lingering in the background most days. Also, the fact that me and my housemates didn\u2019t have Wi-Fi for the first 6 weeks did not help the feeling. But in a way, it was both a blessing and a curse. While I felt severely disconnected from my parents, family and friends at home, not being able to facetime them at the drop of a hat, me and my housemates bonded so closely in those weeks which we wouldn\u2019t have happened in the same way if we had access to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s funny really, when you move to uni, you kind of feel like you\u2019re in limbo. You grow up and change so much, that you no longer fit in or feel like you belong in your hometown, but you still miss it, the people there, and who you used to be in some ways. But, you can never go back to who you used to be when living there. However, I don\u2019t always feel like I fit in at uni as well. There are so many groups and societies you can be a part of at university that sometimes you can get lost in it all, dipping your toe in everything, but never really settling on one thing that is yours. One place where you belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many things I do, that you can also do to make the homesickness fade, such as facetiming your family and friends from home regularly, doing activities that remind you of home or having comfort items at your uni house from home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, my comfort items are my blanket that I\u2019ve had for a long time, a crocheted panda that my sister gave me as a gift one Christmas, and a necklace my parents bought me for GCSE results day. Whatever it is, it doesn\u2019t matter, if it makes you uni house feel more like a home, then it will do. Keeping yourself busy also helps, as it distracts your brain from feeling homesick, by busying it with other fun plans to think about. For example, going to the cinema with your friends, exploring your city, \u2013 I\u2019ve been in Cardiff for over two years and there are still so many adventures to be had here \u2013 crafts night or baking night in, trying out a new restaurant that you\u2019ve never been to before etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeling homesick does not have to be a barrier, you can still enjoy university life while being homesick at the same time. Making the most of the opportunities, both social and academic, university has to offer will also make you more excited about being at uni, and not think about home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some links to resources if you are dealing with feelings of homesickness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiff Students Union page on Loneliness, Isolation &amp; Homesickness: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/advice\/health-and-wellbeing\/lonelinessisolationandhomesickness\/#:~:text=Bring%20some%20of%20your%20favourite,feel%20more%20familiar%20and%20cosy.&amp;text=Talk%20to%20friends%20and%20family,somebody%20you%20know%20and%20trust.\">https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/advice\/health-and-wellbeing\/lonelinessisolationandhomesickness\/#:~:text=Bring%20some%20of%20your%20favourite,feel%20more%20familiar%20and%20cosy.&amp;text=Talk%20to%20friends%20and%20family,somebody%20you%20know%20and%20trust.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Student Intranet&#8217;s page on Homesickness: <a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.cardiff.ac.uk\/students\/health-and-wellbeing\/self-help-resources\/homesickness\">https:\/\/intranet.cardiff.ac.uk\/students\/health-and-wellbeing\/self-help-resources\/homesickness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiff&#8217;s Buddy Scheme: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/activities\/studentled\/buddyscheme\">https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/activities\/studentled\/buddyscheme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TalkCampus App: <a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.cardiff.ac.uk\/students\/health-and-wellbeing\/talk-campus\">https:\/\/intranet.cardiff.ac.uk\/students\/health-and-wellbeing\/talk-campus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Words By Ella Collis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before coming back to uni for my final year, I was practically itching to get back. 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