The Valpo Core Reader
 

Document Type

Comparison and Contrast Essay

Publication Date

1995

Excerpt

My late night Target runs were becoming more and more frequent as August 18th rapidly approached. Would I be prepared to leave? Would I have enough clothes to wear? The seven cardboard boxes bursting with jeans and sweaters just didn't look like enough. I would need to bring every article of clothing that I owned because I was not planning to wash more than twice a semester. Also, I wasn't going to be back home for three and a half months. That is the longest that I had ever been away from home; last summer I had gone to a soccer camp out of state for five whole days and I thought that was a long time. That is why I had to be very prepared; I would not feel really homesick if I could bring all the comforts of home along with me.

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