Halloween is here and gone and the wait for Thanksgiving is upon us.

In the several months between the start of the school year and Thanksgiving, a lot of students will find a reason to go home.  Whether it is for holidays or another excuse you can think of, most students will make a trip home at some point before Thanksgiving comes.  For the rest of us, it is hard to leave Binghamton - even for a weekend.  Any day that I am not in Binghamton, for whatever reason, I feel like I am missing out.  But in these weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, you suddenly come eager to go home.  No matter where you go to school (if you aren’t a commuter student), there are some things a school can not replicate from home: your parents, your own room, your favorite restaurant, etc.

This feeling is amplified because this is the time of the year when work starts to pile up.  I don’t even have Friday classes yet I was on campus all day for group meetings, projects and homework. 

But of course comes the inevitability - once you do come home, you want to come back.  You will tell your home friends all about your school experiences and they will share their stories as well.  And while you’re sitting there reminiscing, you’re wishing you could return… to school. 

Random Thought of the Day: The first basketball games of the season are this week.  For all of you who are coming to visit the school this weekend, I strongly suggest checking out the Bearcats Saturday night in the Events Center.