Especially during your freshman year, you will most likely be homesick at some point. You might miss your parents, your friends from high school or a significant other; there is nothing wrong with this at all. You should try to get home for a weekend during each semester, but no more than once or twice.
By leaving campus every weekend, you are missing out on a great opportunity to meet new people, get involved in new activities and experience stuff you never imagined. Many students transfer after a semester because they left every weekend and never even gave the school a fair shot.
Even though the temptation to leave may be great, you have to give your school a fair shot and this means staying on campus for the majority of the weekends for an entire year. You cannot go back and forth for one semester and decide that a place isn’t right for you, it takes longer than that to make an educated decision.
By leaving campus frequently, you are robbing yourself of friends and experiences that you could be having on campus.
The Bottom Line: Like so many things in life, there is an easy thing to do and a more difficult thing to do. The “easy thing” in this situation is to leave campus every weekend to be back in your comfort zone. The difficult thing, which is also the right thing, is to give yourself every chance to succeed in your new environment. By leaving all the time you could be missing out on the time of your life!