Freshers, how many times have you been home since you have started?

Apart from where you said "wtf is wrong with you?"

And I care what some random guy thinks because?

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I'm obviously not a fresher haha. But in my very first year I went home for the weekend after a month... I don't think it's wise to get into the habit of going home every weekend as not only do you miss out, you become dependent on it and it takes longer to settle.

Second time round I don't remember going home at all in the first term, in fact I didn't even ring my mum until 2 weeks in...!

Dude I don't give a **** 28 people pos repped me and by the time you quote me more ppl would have possed repped me...wtf is wrong with the op and you..

Just pointing out an little inaccuracy in your post. I'm sure someone who thinks so much of themselves would hate to be incorrect. I must also take this opportunity to congratulate you on your "pos rep", it must really make you sleep easy at night.

And I never actually said I thought you wrong...

I am shocked by the responses on this thread.I would have thought it would have consisted of either I go home every day(i.e living at home for university) or I won't go home till the end of term(i.e living away from home for university) because I thought the travel costs would make it too expensive to make several trips back home along with all the time wasting and surely it would be a huge bother to do that every week.I am very likely going to move away for university and I will only return home after each term.If you do that you will still end up seeing your family about 20 weeks a year is that not enough?

I have been home 3 out of 4 weekends so far.

What about you?

Re travel costs - well, I'm pretty far (3 hour trip) and a return ticket with railcard costs £40, but it's a non-issue really as my parents have the money and don't want it to be an impediment to them seeing me. Some people's are a lot cheaper though.
Time wasted - I take my laptop and watch my downloaded lectures or downloaded TV shows depending on what sort of mood I'm in. So the only real time wasted is getting from my place to the station, ie a 20 minute walk or 5 min taxi.
It's not just total amount of time, it's also regularity.

You forgot to include the cost of the railcard.I went on a summer school to the university I plan to go to and they paid the trainfares and they were over £100.I wouldn't want to take my laptop too and from home and university because its too valuable and lets not also forget that a lot of people leave for university because they want to get away from their parents from what I've heard.£40 is a lot of money anyway if you keep on travelling every week and most people don't have really rich parents.