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Comfort and unease: the confusion of going home for winter break

Comfort and unease: the confusion of going home for winter break

By Julian Garcia January 28, 2026
Sometimes seeing this change makes me uncomfortable. For the month I was home, I caught myself feeling trapped and wanting to leave again, even though I had just arrived. Other times, it was soothing — I didn’t see home as a place that I wanted to escape from, but instead as a place, like college, that shaped me.
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