12 Reasons Why Thanksgiving is the Best Holiday for College Students

There are a lot of downsides to Thanksgiving: the infamous turkey dump, impending finals, having your family members debate whether or not you’ve gained the freshman 15, to name a few. Despite this, there are so many things to be thankful for as a college student. Here are 12 reasons why Thanksgiving is the best holiday ever.

1. If you go home for Thanksgiving, you’ll be surrounded by free food.

2. In fact, there will be so much food that you can probably take some back to school with you.

Another week avoiding dining hall food #ftw.

3. If your hometown is on the West Coast or in the South, you have EVERYTHING to be thankful for.

Bless you, golden sun.

4. And even if you live somewhere cold, well, at least it’s not the dead of winter yet.

5. There’s a 1,000% chance that “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will be on TV.

It’s still perfectly acceptable for you to be excited about this.

6. You can turn up with all your friends the night before Thanksgiving.

7. And after that, you get to spend quality time with your family.

8. But not too much quality time.

Four days of everyone asking how much weight you’ve gained is enough, thanks.

9. If you aren’t going home, be thankful that your relatives won’t be prying into your relationship status.

10. Or asking you why you don’t have a job yet.

11. The holidays aren’t over, so you can look forward to all the ugly sweater parties when you get back to school.

12. And speaking of clothes, you WILL be hitting up Black Friday.

So yeah, today is pretty much the best day ever.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!