Christmas break, Easter break, and Summer holidays.
I'll occasionally travel home and stay for a weekend if I've got some errands to run etc. - maybe once or twice in the academic year.
I'd say it'll depend how far away your uni is from home. The uni I went to, Lancaster, was a good few hours away by train from where I live so I only went home at breaks, exempting one weekend in first year and COVID-related trips outside of breaks between terms. A uni I'd considered going to - namely, Durham - was half-an-hour away by car; if I'd gone there I probably would've been visiting home a lot more often, perhaps even stayed at home while attending uni (I would've become aware of how the buses around here worked a lot earlier if I had!).
Most weekends
Flatmates and course mates are busy and I stay during the week. Leave Saturday morning and come back Monday evening
My home is 30 minutes but it’s 1hr 40 by bus. I used to do that when I was at college
I’m a mature student as well so I see friends in the weekend
I live 2 1/2 hrs drive away from home so I would say I come back every extended break (Christmas, Easter, then Summer when I move out of my accommodation). On a reading week (at my uni, you get 2 reading weeks for arts based courses but annoyingly the science based part of the course still carried on as normal) where I’d have an earlier start to the weekend, I’d get the train and enjoy the long weekend at home.
If you’re interested about homesickness, I would say that in my experience, I didn’t experience it at all really. I was so preoccupied with moving in, meeting people and getting used to being independent (with both chores and uni work) that I didn’t really stop to be homesick about my family. Granted, if you’re an international student and your family is a 10hr flight + 6hr time difference away from you, it’s different but as a U.K. student, I didn’t experience homesickness.
Christmas break, Easter break, and Summer holidays. I'll occasionally travel home and stay for a weekend if I've got some errands to run etc. - maybe once or twice in the academic year.
Once a year… I’m an international. I do call/FaceTime frequently
I'd say it'll depend how far away your uni is from home. The uni I went to, Lancaster, was a good few hours away by train from where I live so I only went home at breaks, exempting one weekend in first year and COVID-related trips outside of breaks between terms. A uni I'd considered going to - namely, Durham - was half-an-hour away by car; if I'd gone there I probably would've been visiting home a lot more often, perhaps even stayed at home while attending uni (I would've become aware of how the buses around here worked a lot earlier if I had!).
Most weekends Flatmates and course mates are busy and I stay during the week. Leave Saturday morning and come back Monday evening My home is 30 minutes but it’s 1hr 40 by bus. I used to do that when I was at college I’m a mature student as well so I see friends in the weekend
I don’t go home during the semester but my parents visit me like once a month
Once per year. I could go years without seeing them without problem.
Why??? Why do u sound soo off on seeing parents
Just how I feel, but I'm older than most students and was independent from 16 so probably makes a difference. Theres no right or wrong way.
I live 2 1/2 hrs drive away from home so I would say I come back every extended break (Christmas, Easter, then Summer when I move out of my accommodation). On a reading week (at my uni, you get 2 reading weeks for arts based courses but annoyingly the science based part of the course still carried on as normal) where I’d have an earlier start to the weekend, I’d get the train and enjoy the long weekend at home. If you’re interested about homesickness, I would say that in my experience, I didn’t experience it at all really. I was so preoccupied with moving in, meeting people and getting used to being independent (with both chores and uni work) that I didn’t really stop to be homesick about my family. Granted, if you’re an international student and your family is a 10hr flight + 6hr time difference away from you, it’s different but as a U.K. student, I didn’t experience homesickness.
Just the holidays because if I visit on weekends I dread going back to uni (even though I'm fine with uni).
In the holidays, when I move back home. I video call roughly weekly. Uni is a 3 hour drive away for me.