Scrapbooks - College - Freshman Year - Birthday & Christmas Break

I had the joy of having a birthday right before finals. (I think it even fell on a reading day.) Yuck. So I'm pretty sure I spent most of the day obsessively studying. But my roommates threw me a little party that night; they were so great! My mom had a cake sent, which surprised me. (We were not a store-bought cake kind of family!) I think she felt guilty because I hadn't been able to go home for Thanksgiving.

I really don't remember much of my first Christmas break home from school. I think I felt a little weird because I felt like I had grown up so much at school, but here I was back at home with my parents.

I do remember my parents asking what time I'd be home when I went out with friends, but I think I just shrugged my shoulders and told them I didn't know because I was used to not having a curfew at school! (Even then I'm pretty sure I got home at reasonable times.) ((Both at school and at home. I wasn't much of a party animal...))