Homesick Freshman

[Anonymous]

How is DC dealing with it? How are you responding?

[Anonymous]

DS has adjusted well to college and likes being there. But he also has the advantage of being close enough to home that he can visit during the weekend if he wants to. And this weekend he wanted to, so he did.

I think it's less home sickness than it is "why choose one when you can have both". He was happy to come home for a little while and he was happy to go back.

[Anonymous]

No air conditioning is an issue, their room is 95 at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No air conditioning is an issue, their room is 95 at night.

I'd be tempted to treat for a hotel room (if affordable in the area) for a cool treat..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No air conditioning is an issue, their room is 95 at night.

I'd be tempted to treat for a hotel room (if affordable in the area) for a cool treat..

Kids will get over. Thousands of kids before went thru the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No air conditioning is an issue, their room is 95 at night.

This is the real problem for my nephew and son right now and they are in CT and upstate NY where we thought unairconditioned dorms would not be an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No air conditioning is an issue, their room is 95 at night.

I'd be tempted to treat for a hotel room (if affordable in the area) for a cool treat..

Kids will get over. Thousands of kids before went thru the same thing.

Fewer kids went through it before because the climate is warmer now than it was just a generation ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html

[Anonymous]

It seems like students are starting school earlier than they used to. But maybe I'm misremembering.

This is why you have to have a fan in your dorm room. I remember one hot summer session that I spent in a dorm with no AC. There was even a hole in my window screen that june bugs would somehow manage to squeeze in through.

[Anonymous]

At one school we know of many students are sleeping in the library because room temps are in the nineties. Yikes. Watch how fast these schools AC all the dorms.

[Anonymous]

Not homesick because missing comfort of AC, but missing home.

[Anonymous]

Dorms don’t have air conditioning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dorms don’t have air conditioning?

Some do, some don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not homesick because missing comfort of AC, but missing home.

They are too hot and miserable to miss home.

[Anonymous]

"Fewer kids went through it before because the climate is warmer now than it was just a generation ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/cli...h-hotter-is-your-hometown.html"

This is NOT true. Yes the climate is warmer but only by 2 or 3 degrees.

Yes that leads to larger swings in temperature so there are more warmer pockets than there were before.

However, most colleges in those warm pockets have added AC over the last generation.

The reason more kids are going through problems with warm dorm rooms is that the fraction of homes with AC has risen.

More AC at home makes it harder for kids to do without in their dorms.

https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/2009/air-conditioning.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS has adjusted well to college and likes being there. But he also has the advantage of being close enough to home that he can visit during the weekend if he wants to. And this weekend he wanted to, so he did.

I think it's less home sickness than it is "why choose one when you can have both". He was happy to come home for a little while and he was happy to go back.

How long have they been there? A week or two? I'd be really careful about letting this become a habit. You don't want a kid who runs home every time they are bored or feel lonely. You're paying for access to all those clubs and activities he's not checking out if he's coming home.