Has anyone else experienced this? DD went to uni this sept to a city 5 hours from home. The uni did not help with settling in (no freshers reps or older years encouraging them to get involved) and she struggled to find her feet in the first couple of weeks. I wasn't too worried as have heard this is normal, but we're approaching Christmas now and she still calls me in floods of tears a few times a week. She says her course is going well (but lots of free time) and she does have friends but she only sees them a couple of times a week as they are all on different courses. She struggles with her flatmates as most evenings they do drugs with their friends in the flat which dd isn't a fan of, I've suggested telling the university about them but she doesn't want to get them kicked out. She just seems so homesick a lot of the times and she tries to get involved in uni life but I think she'd rather be closer to home. Is there any advice you would give her? i think she should stick it out but I get that its hard when everything seems so miserable and lonely. Just hate hearing her so upset :(
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