Being a millennial student away from home during the pandemic means coping with a host of worries, from an excess of memes to the risk of losing residential status if you stay away too long I have felt homesick for close to a decade.
At first, it was acute—a sharp, stinging missing. Slowly, though, as I found that I could pinpoint two places on a world map—two places that felt like home—this pain softened, even transformed into something else: a feeling of often being not-quite-here, being elsewhere.
Shuttling between cities, and continents, means tons of time spent texting across time zones. It means long-distance relationships, digital-only relationships.