NEW SOUTH — While packing her suitcase for Thanksgiving vacation, freshman Miranda Frankel (COL ’18) expressed her relief for the chance to “get home and stress over family shit, for a change.”

Frankel reported she couldn’t decide on whether to pack clothes which would cause her elderly great-aunt to question her sexuality or to pack clothes which would make her relatives think of her as overly-promiscuous.

Frankel, exhausted from an arduous semester of transitioning to college life, said she has been dying for a break at her troubled home in Livingston, New Jersey.

“I’m so tired of my hallmates fighting all the time. Everyone’s so passive aggressive here… it makes me tense,” said Frankel. “My parents’ fights are totally more direct and vicious. It’ll be a relief to hear that every night.”

Though happy to be a Hoya, Frankel says the constant pressure to perform at a high academic standard has taken a toll on her well-being.

“I’m just gonna let all of the school stuff go for a few days,” gushed Frankel as she dumped her pillbox of Adderall out on her desk, filling it with Kolonopin instead. “I’m gonna let myself focus on the things that really matter, like my brother’s recent DUI charge.”

Frankel said she is most excited about reuniting with old friends from high school, especially those who she hasn’t spoken to since graduation.

“On the Hilltop, sometimes I feel like I’m surrounded by people I don’t even recognize. But at home, I go to the supermarket to buy my mom’s whiskey and I have to avoid eye contact with someone I know in, like, every other aisle! It really makes me feel like a member of the community,” said Frankel.

Still, Frankel knows that Thanksgiving is all about family. She expects to spend most of the break cozied up in her childhood home, where she and her siblings were shoddily raised to be abrasive and narcissistic.

“Uncle Rodney just got out on probation, and it’ll be the first time my racist grandparents meet my brother’s Black girlfriend,” explained Frankel. “Finally, we’ll all be together! I love the holidays.”

Frankel’s roommate expressed relief for her to get off the Hilltop for a little while.

“She argues with her parents on the phone a lot when she calls home,” said her roommate Christine Shwartz (MSB ‘18), “But I can’t imagine it’s the same as cursing each other out in person.”

Like most Georgetown students, Frankel is hoping to return to campus in December refreshed and ready to take on finals.

“Right now, I’m not motivated at all. But after four days of an angry family standoff about putting grandma in a nursing home, I’ll be dying to devote my thoughts to schoolwork,” said Frankel, glowing with anticipation. “This break could not be at a more perfect time.”