First years prefer being at campus than at home

Basically what I’ve noticed being a first year is that first year student like to be at campus than being at home. I think the reason of this is that they feel independent here than at home because at home parents always give them rules and restrict them on doing things. What I’ve noticed merely is that first years like to be on their own rather being around their parents. My opinion will be mostly about my own point of view about first year’s preference to be at campus and I will look at the fact that why they prefer campus lifestyle than being at their homes.
At homes parents gives us policies to live our lives. Students are very grateful about their parent’s teachings and disciplines. It’s just the fact that they fill to be on their own at this age and parents always treat them like small children which that is what they do as wise. The independence they get at varsity is extremely precise what they want. First years at varsity usually go out each and every weekend; they don’t ask whose permission to do so they just do it. Compared when at home to do so they have to put pillows on their beds for the parents when checking them at their rooms and they go out by using a window and leave it open. Parents will always be parents even after matric they will always check on their children’s safety. When first years arrive at varsity, the day of arrival to them is like ‘wow’, I am finally on my own, my parents will only send me money and I will only see them during vacations. They become very happy in experiencing their freedom being out of their homes, they feel that they now have a second home, home away from home but they get to much comfortable in that, for example some first years even say when vacation is around the corner they don’t wish to go home.
Moving on, another fact is that first years can sometimes don’t know how to control their independency, they can party on and off two or three times a week and that can result on having bad academic results. They can get too over excited about their self-rules, some still live by their parents rules and teachings but some don’t. First years also like to experiment some ludicrous things, e.g. some can smoke marijuana or being a party animal just to experiment being a different character from what he or she used to be. The first year’s adaptation of the campus lifestyle appears even when there at home, the partying and not cooking. When their at home they usually get bored as they did not grow up there, they are now used in getting food from the dining halls those who stay at University residence, and those in digs cook whatever they want to eat. At home parents restrict things to use and what not to use. Most first years say that campus lifestyle rocks and studies can be maintained and sometimes not. To other first years the experience of being far away from home makes them sad but the majority is the opposite. Home sickness is not a particular thing to first years who have always wished to be far away from home. The choice to be at campus than being at home is very fond by the majority of first year Rhodes students.
To conclude, as I am also a first year but being the one who misses home, my friends and other first years I know prefer to be here at campus. They have strange moods when it comes to go home, they even lie to their parents that there extra activities occurring during the vacations so that parents can send them money to rent lodgings. I find it so strange when people don’t miss their homes or prefer to stay a weekend at their homes. Most of Rhodes first year students are happy to spend their time at campus, even during holidays but I guess they will change their minds at their second years.