Speaking as one who still suffers from homesickness, I can tell you that the Internet is your friend.
E-mail your friends back home regularly. Check out your home town newspaper’s website regularly. Hell–even check and see what the weather is like, if that’ll help. Soon, you’ll see that a lot of information is accessable to you about “home” all the time, so being away from “home” won’t be so hard. You can “visit” (virtually) anytime you like.I know, I know, it’s not like actually being there, but it does help.
It’s true–home is where the heart is, but you can make do with where you are for now. You don’t have to love it–no one is forcing you to. But you can allow yourself to find certain things acceptable about it, and you can comfort yourself that the bad things about it are just temporary, because you’ll be outta there in a year and back home!
You need to do your own cost/benefit because only you know what weighting to give everything (eg. friends). I’d recommend argument mapping. Look it up on the web, download the software (very simple to use) enter all the pros and cons of each and one side will look better than the other. Its obviously a close contest or you wouldn’t be agonising, so seeing it laid out will help with your decision.
Good luck.
I’ve moved many, many times in my life and with each new place I’ve always wanted to go back “home” for the first few months. Human beings crave familiarity and there is no way around it. The way I would trick myself to make the new place home was to go away, twice, just overnight, to another new place, alone; and then come back “home”. This speeds up the process of making the new place become “home”. Don’t laugh. It works. Also, what you have left ALWAYS seems better, and it will seem better and better through the yearning for the familiar phase, until the new place becomes home. I lived in Florida among a lot of other places; I didn’t like it either. I have to have the four seasons, space, and peace and quiet. Even if you never use the degree you will be getting you will have taken another large step toward maturity and adulthood and will have accomplished something in the face of a desire to do the easy thing and run back home. You will also have disappointed your mother who loves you and only wants the best for you (I’m a mom). Just tough it out because it’s such a short time and in the end I assure you you will be proud of yourself and glad you hung in there. When you left NH there was a reason; maybe now is the time to think about that. You can’t find what you wanted to change in your life by going back to square one. That’s all life is anyway; the journey, not arriving. You never arrive and that is the biggest shock of all! brush away the cobwebs of your artifical memories of how great it was back home, and open yourself up to new experiences. Life really has so much to offer if you just open your eyes. I know you will.
Indeed it is. I think that if you go back now you will really regret it later. I think you will regret it more so when everyone else has moved on after college.
You have to think of the long term. Full Sail will offer you opportunities that NH can’t.