Here's a wake-up call for students still at home waiting for the spring semester to begin. As this piece points out, many students try to recreate their college lives when they return home for break or during the summer, often to their parents' chagrin.

Things at home aren't the same anymore, and that's especially difficult for college freshmen to acknowledge. Freedom Cuts both ways---your parents have come to appreciate it just as much as you have. At the same time, it's tough adhering to house rules once you've shed them.

Ah, what a rough life you college kids have.