I see a lot of you talking about RAs. I hardly ever talked to my RA. I can't even pronounce his name from my junior year. Had no idea who it was senior year. I needed nothing from them. I only needed them at check out, and even then I did express check out many times so I didn't even see them then. Maybe your RAs were cooler than mine O.o

Also - second on the Thanksgiving thing. I watched many of my close to home friends struggle with growing up and letting go of the family. Family is important, but getting out from under the wing is -more- important in college. Try new things, meet new people, have crazy friends that you'd never bring home to mom!