Should I stay in college or go home for the summer?

If you're still in college and just home for the summer you're not mooching off your parents. If you feel really bad, just get a job while you're home and pay for most of your own food. In my opinion, if you don't need to take a summer course, don't. The extra break from classes is worth it. By the way, lots of kids live at home after college before they find a real job. They're 23-25 years old, so 21 is definitely not too old to be staying with your parents.

what kind of college pay for your apartment if you take summer classes there??? never heard of it.

I spent my last few summers at school, although I worked summer jobs instead of taking classes. I'm glad I did. While I loved my parents, I was well past the point where I wanted to live with them.

Stay at school over the summer even if you don't take classes. Get a summer job somewhere around campus. I did this for two summers while I was in college, loved every minute of it.

Should I stay or should I go wrote:

I am a 20 year old sophomore in college who is wondering weather I should go home next summer or rent a apartment at my current university and take classes in the summer?

Your usage of the word "weather" indicates that an english class may be in order for the summer.

Your school will pay for an apartment? Do you you mean student loans or some type of financial aid will pay for it?

huh?? wrote:

what kind of college pay for your apartment if you take summer classes there??? never heard of it.

It seems like mooch off parents vs mooch off school.

I'm 26 now. When I was in college I never did anything cool with my summers. I spent two summers with my parents and worked a lame job. The last two summers of college, I worked a lame job in my college town. Neither option was very good. If I had it to do over again, I would get a summer job in some town I've always wanted to go to. Like Ketchican Alaska working as a tour guide for cruise ship tours or something like that. There are lots of things like that if you plan ahead for it. My wife worked at Disney world one summer as a life guard and another time she worked in Manmoth Lakes at a ski resort. She loved the experience she had at both. My summers were pretty boring, working crap jobs in the hot hummity of the Midwest.

What are your priorities for the summer and which option best accomodates them?

I went home and took classes all but one summer, it wasn't bad, I had a lot of good times with old friends back at home. However, I did stay at college to finish up my last summer, only briefly though. It was probably one of the better summers I had. I got to run with teammates and relax a lot. My advice, if teammates stay around, you can run with them, you're friends with them, then stay there. However, I would also recommend at least going home at least once or twice during the summer. As the old adage goes..."there's no place like home."

If you can't make sense of that, then do what fits your goals and needs the best.

Should I stay or should I go wrote:

I am a 20 year old sophomore in college who is wondering weather I should go home next summer or rent a apartment at my current university and take classes in the summer? Others who were in my situation, what have they done? On one hand I would like to go back to my hometown for a bit to see old friends and the family especially since I go to college so far away from where I'm from (I'm from the east coast and going to college in the northwest) but on the other hand I'll be turning 21 in a year and that may be too old to be mooching of the parents, especially if I don't have too (my school will pay for an apartment if I take classes over the summer). So what should I do?

As the economy is still bad and might take a couple years yet to get really going again (jobs and everything), I wouldn't be in a rush to finish your degree if I were you. I'd take next summer off and either stay at home with your parents or go somewhere fun for the summer as was suggested by others (even if you have to take a seasonal job to make it work). You've got a lot of time after you graduate to work brother. Definitely have some fun in the summer between your sophomore and junior years. Might be a little better to find an internship or something like that in the summer before your senior year though, but for next year, definitely don't take classes. I sure in hell wouldn't (and didn't). You'll likely NEVER get the summers off again (unless you're a teacher or some other lucky schmuck).