Word: homesickness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...summer. After being a little worried that I was missing out on some killer internship or summer job, now I'm seeing everything I'm missing out on by being too afraid to come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just as easy to avoid immersing myself in the culture; for six weeks, it wouldn't be hard to pretend that Oxford...
...Heroin - Velvet Underground 2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd 3. White Room - Cream 4. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 5. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who 6. Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience 7. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones 8. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan 9. Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin 10. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel...
...appeals would definitely be the freedom and opportunity this distance offers. Going to school far away from home forces you to try new things while at Harvard, going against a tendency you may have as a first-year to cling to old things as a comfort when you feel homesick. During your first year at college, you would most likely seek comfort in relying on old things and old friends. Being so far away from them will force you to learn to explore things you haven't tried before. Instead of calling on old friends when you miss home...
Though Gomez was often homesick this year, he likes his new state. "It gets a bad rap," he says. "I've been to some great malls. The Garden State Plaza and the Short Hills Mall. That one was nice." Among other highlights of the year, he lists "sitting courtside at a Knicks game and seeing all the movie stars." Hockey players don't get a lot of perks...
...stone idols, which lend our sit-down an odd Polynesian-honeymoon quality. "All the great stories are about our battle with loneliness," Hanks once said. "That's what I always end up being drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course, across oceans and space and time, and they just want to go home...