Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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M. ichelle Pinto and Eddie DeCastro help Tracey Okolowic pack her car for the trip home. Many students looked Forward to seeing family and triends even if it was only for a lew days. Photo by Dock Perry. R acked and ready to go, Karin Schwenger, a junior, waits for her nde to pick her up outside Cawthon Hall. Weekend trips were a great -way for students to get away Irom the pressures of school. Photo by Dock Perry. I 1 8 Student Life

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Mm m iu ' B. J V. Lick greets honored alumni during halkime at the Homecoming game. Homecom- ing week was a time for alumni to return to their beginnings and to a much loved, but everchanging, campus. Photo by Hubert Parker. L m here to pump you up! Kevin Nealon said to a lively audience at the Civic Center during Pow Wow. Nealon, cast member of Saturday Night Live, also performed his famous Subliminal Man as part of his stand-up routine. Photo by Robert Parker. Tradition 17

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HOMEWARD BounD STUDENTS HEAD HOME The appetizing steak and potatoes were a welcome reprieve from the normal nuked burritos. The smell of your mom ' s pies filled your nostrils andyour dog almost knockedyou down in his all too lovable greeting. If it was your first time, your mother gave a knowing sigh at your overflowing pile of laundry. If your were fortunate enough to have younger siblings, you marveled at how much they had changed. Your brother was not actually talking to girls w henyou left for school was he? Was that makeup you saw on your sister ' s lace? Home was everything you remembered, yet somehow it was different. The feeling students got when they went home for the weekend could be described as almost eerie. ' On my four-hour drive home, I ponder what will be different this trip, Orlando resident Wendy Exely said. The first time I went home. Mom had planted flowers. The second time she had wallpapered the bathroom and the third time she ' d done the kitchen as well. It ' s always an adventure to see what has changed about home this time. The first time I vent home it lelt like I was coming back from camp, but on the way back, it finally hit me that Tallahassee is where I live now, freshman Kristi Conklin said. It ' s such a different feeling to go home again. When I get to the door, I knock and open it at the same time. Even though it ' s my home and it ' s where I grew up, I don ' t live there anymore, junior Jason Longman said. I miss my little brother and sisters the most. They grow up so much while I ' m away, Jacksonville resident Nia Elliot said. Many freshmen felt overwhelmed with the desire to return to the security of their own bed and their old niche in society. Although many w ent through what seemed like four years of high school hell, anticipating the day when they would finally be able to pack their bags and head otf to the big university, they often found themselves longing to be back home. A lot of times, I ' m more homesick when I come back than before I go, Conklin said. It brings it all back to mind and makes me miss everything even more. My first semester in college, I went home every other weekend, even though it was six hours away, Immokalee resident Neida Schooler said. Many students were not lucky enough to visit home as much as they vished. Out-of- state students often had to wait until Christmas and summer breaks before seeing their family. However, when it was possible to return home, students raked in the advantages. Students grabbed the open opportunity to pump up the Tallahassee bank account, stock the fridge with pity-hlled home cooked meals and fill their closets with new clothes. My car is always more full coming back to Tallahassee than going home, English major Kara Raines said. I go shopping every time I go home without fail. Home was always a welcome sight for students. With the daily stress of college life, nothing seemed to relieve the tension of the overworked student better than a visit with the family. Although home could be described as only a building made of walls, these walls encompassed all of the memories that made home so special. These same walls w elcomed students back and seemed to remind them not only of who they were and how they got there, but also of where they had once been and what they had endured to get there. As the weekend ended, Monday came all too soon and students found themselves sitting in class holding a bit more of the walls than they had on Friday. BY ASHLEY WILLIAMS Going Home 19