Home, Home on the Range

Fall Break

Definition: A mid-semester extended weekend given to Allegheny students as a reward for going 6.5 weeks straight of classes. Time is given to go home and spend time with the family, or relax back at your residence hall.

This past weekend, I had opted for the second due to complications at home with an inability to drive 3 hours to pick me up bring me back home and do it all over again a few days later. Unfortunately, nobody notified me that in the end, I would be one of maybe 3 people left in my hall...the others of which I don't talk to.

A call came in Friday night, asking me how to say bitch in French, and I gave her a far more offensive term. She threw me on the phone with her boyfriend, and after a while of talking he offered to get me the next day after work. What a fantastic idea! My sister ended up getting me after work after I had called her 'sick' to get her out of a mandatory RA thing.


It was a complete surprise to my family that I was coming home. My father was thrilled and my mother was pissed because we were so late getting home and almost missed my brother's haunted house. Beyond that all was fine...except my brother's take-over of the bathroom, that was disgusting.

It was nice to be home. I went for pumpkins and picked apples. I ate good food in reasonable portions and got to sleep in my own bed (hard as a rock compared to my school bed...and about 2 feet shorter) I also drove a car again, one thing that I miss terribly here. And I went to Target and saw civilization. I visited school and talked to my favorite teachers and saw my swim team...and realized I really do NOT miss swimming. Overall it was good to be home. But at the same time, at the end of 2 days, I was ready to come back. Very ready. Home is great, my family is great, it was wonderful to see Carolyn and have a good old Tuxedo Latte at Leaf and Bean, but seriously I have been so independent for the past two months that it was a little strange to ask my parents if I could do everything and to live out of a duffel bag in my own home.

But now I have 5 more weeks of straight classes with no breaks, until Thanksgiving. Everyone will be home at Thanksgiving, I will have a reason to be there, to kick off the holiday season with tons of good food, get Christmas decorations and then return at the end to finish off the semester. College goes so quick.

This is probably the most disorganized blog post in a long time. Deal with it.