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4 Ways to Get Through Thanksgiving in College
By Zy Mazza
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Fun, food, friends, and family–what’s there not to love! Of course, many college students find themselves away from their families for the first time come Thanksgiving, so what can you do? I have some ideas to help you out…
1) Go home to your family for Thanksgiving!
STEP 1: Go online, and check ticket prices
STEP 2: Realize you’re a broke college student, and can’t afford to go anywhere
STEP 3:
2) Go to your friends house
If you’ve decided you’re going home this year, I’m honored that you’re reading my post, heir or heiress to the Moneybags fortune. Can I please have a million dollars?
If not, keep reading…
This is where having friends native to your college town is super useful. See, they, unlike you, will be surrounded by family this Thanksgiving, so all you need to do is score an invite! Sure it won’t be the same, because your Uncle’s racist comments are so much better than the ones your friend’s Uncle makes, but at least you can eat some tasty food.
Don’t have a local friend? See below:
3) Throw your own Thanksgiving!
Okay okay I know this is probably how I sound right now:
But bear with me it’s probably not as bad as it sounds. You can make a Thanksgiving meal for 10 for about $50 bucks and you can probably get your other lonely friends with no Thanksgiving plans to pitch in too. With some creative accounting, you could maybe even make a profit!
Unless, of course, you don’t have your own place and you’re still living at the dorms, in which case I have some advice for you:
4.) Dorm Thanksgiving!
Listen to me. I’m so, so sorry you’ve made it to this point in the article, but here we are so let’s just help each other get through this. You’re spending Thanksgiving in a dorm. That’s the bad news. The good news is, a lot of residence halls throw Thanksgiving parties for people just like you! It’s not ideal, but it could be worse:
It could be so much worse.
No matter what you do this Thanksgiving, please have fun. It’s my favorite holiday and I don’t want any unhappy college kids weighing on my conscience. By the way, this year for Thanksgiving, I’ll be flying out.
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