Homesickness ….well, it all starts with having something familiar around you to create a comfort zone away from home…favorite something. Missing the familiar is the root of it…friends, family, pets, surroundings.

Do you have access to a computer? Does your family at home? If you are missing your family (or friends, and they have access to a computer) use any of several messaging / VOIP options (I use www.skype.com) so you can talk with friends and family for free.

The unfortunate truth about life is that no one gets out of it alive. So learning to handle being away from friends and family comes in handy….and after all, they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, too. So there is plus and minus to just about everything in life.

And yes, as others suggested, keeping yourself and your mind busy helps “distract” you so you don’t sit alone and dwell on things in your mind and go a little bit depressed.

So join clubs (usually organized around a theme or interest) where you can meet others with a common interest.

Volunteer: lots of opportunities with diverse focal points of interest…visiting community centers…seniors nursing homes (great chance to get “adopted” by some locals who know the area, have family connections…and maybe you get a substitute “urban” family).

I always found holidays tough. I was about 3,000 miles away from home!! So your situation is more like heaven! Only 4 hours…that was the time zone difference when I wanted to call home…but it was so expensive in those days, I rarely had the chance). But I was able to make new friends in the area and got invited home with them for the major holidays….and “adopted” and it really made me not feel homesick at all.

Hope this helps. Best wishes to you.

Don’t transfer just cause you’re homesick, it’s something you need to deal with cause you’re not gonna live at home forever anyways. Try to find something there you’re into, an extracurricular something, or a job that you can really enjoy, or a group of friends from the campus that can take your mind off home and the old friends, or hell a boyfriend or something. As long as you keep occupied with one thing or another you won’t have to worry about homesickness, the more you sit idle the more you’ll miss home. Even something like trying to write a novel during those thimes that there is absolutely nothing to do will keep your mind occupied and off of home. Also home is where you make it, if you stop thinking of home as home and accept that while you’re at school that IS home it kind of helps.

If you’re homesick, try finding something to keep your mind off of it. Join a club or a team or find some friends to go hang out with, and then you won’t be so lonely.

Or just call your parents and talk, or any friends you had back home. It’s definately hard to adjust to being in university, but it gets better – just hang in there and it’ll feel like home in no time.

There is basically no way in heaven that you will ever get all (or even most) of your credits to transfer. Home sickness, do other things. If you’re too busy to think about home you won’t start having homesickness.

Credits for the class is still credits for the class and they should be able to transfer. Contact the admissions adviser of whatever school you choose to transfer to and talk to them about it.

I’m not sure how Bowling Green does it, but a girl I use to work with, she just moved, graduated from their in May. I’m pretty sure her major was accounting.

Otherwise Owens here in Toledo area just built a Performing Arts Center and you could check into their programs. I know they tranfer credits. Then when you are more comfortable being away from home you can transfer to anywhere you choose.

Four hours may seems like a long ways away but its really not, If you get up early you can be home by lunch, and when driving back you can take off late afternoon and still be home by 8.

Sorry =/

Try to join a few clubs or something and meet new people! Making new friends will make things somewhat better ..

Hang up a bunch of pictures of friends and family.. and talk to your friends over im!

hope it gets better for you soon.

Spend more time in class, keep busy. It is a school day there? Why are you moaning and groaning on the computer?