It’s a Thursday night and nothing in the world sounds more appealing than putting pajamas on and lying in your bed to watch re-runs of Friends. It’s Friday night and nothing sounds as awful as sitting in to write your Psych paper but it’s due tomorrow morning and you simply have to get it done. Meanwhile, social excursions and hangouts galore are happening around you. It seems like everyone except you is doing something exciting or being social.

Sometimes you just want or need to stay in and the sounds and sights of everyone else is distracting and causes a sinking feeling that you’re missing out. In college, there’s a definite pressure to be constantly socializing and doing something. For me, this was one of the hardest things to deal with during freshman year. How can you spend time alone doing little to nothing when there are people everywhere? 

FOMO (fear of missing out) in college was something that always ate away at me and, while it still does, I’ve learned to focus on the roots of it and figure out methods to end it or make it less intense. Now, I’m going to share them with you, because you won’t wanna miss out on this haha, see what I did there? Missing out? Yeah. Anyway.

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