Some things that you should be sure that you do so that you won't fit into the stereotype of the college student that is so wrapped up in his/her own world that no one else exists. Your relatives will hate you if you do that.
1) Promptly write nice thank you notes for all packages, gifts, and money received from your relatives. Anything received from your immediate family can be thankified through a phone.
2) Call your parents at least once a week, your siblings every few weeks, and your grandparents before every major holiday - it helps if you have a stock of questions and things to talk about so that you don't have awful silences (or you could just stop being socially inept)
3) Writing letters is preferable to email and Facebook
4) Call people on their birthday, even if you sent a card (and especially if you sent a howler - there's nothing quite like hearing them explode into birthday wishes)
5) Tell people when you will be coming back into town so that you can see them (this goes for friends and relatives) - if you DON'T want to see someone, suck it up because you won't be able to hide your arrival from them (unless they are high at the time which is a distinct possibility given the new marijuana legislation)
6) At the end of each semester or year, print out a couple of photos of you and your friends and mail them to your relatives so that they can see how you're doing, make sure to include a note
This might all seem like a major imposition but your family will thank you and you will feel more attached to home and other mushy stuff like that.
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