How Maryville Stu­dents Spend Their Time at Home

Maryville is a com­mon place that stu­dents spend their free time on the week­ends af­ter a long week of classes. On the week­ends, Maryville of­fers con­certs, sports games and other events on cam­pus. While be­ing on cam­pus can be a good time, it’s some stu­dents tend to take a break and go home for the week­end. 

Lau­ren Helle­busch, a ju­nior nurs­ing and psy­chol­ogy ma­jor, likes to spend her week­ends at home of­ten. Al­though she lives on cam­pus, she en­joys the com­pany of her fam­ily.

Home for Helle­busch is in Marthasville, MO. with her dad, mom, brother and sis­ter. Marthasville is about an hour away from Maryville, and is a small town just out­side of Wash­ing­ton, MO off of high­way 64. 

“Be­tween be­ing at school and be­ing at home there are a lot of pros and cons to each. When I go home I feel like I can just re­lax and wind down. Plus, be­ing at home I am able to re­ally fo­cus on home­work while be­ing around my par­ents and sib­lings,” said Helle­busch, “When I’m at school, I like to be with my friends and room­mates and it gives me time to re­lax when I’m with them too. Mostly, I get a lot of my home­work done at school with study groups so that’s a re­ally big plus. A con to be­ing at home is that since I do have a lot of peo­ple back at home it can be kind of dis­tract­ing. A con to be­ing at school is that there are way more dis­trac­tions, es­pe­cially with dif­fer­ent events hap­pen­ing too.”

When she does­n’t have fam­ily events go­ing on, Helle­busch said that her fam­ily likes to go to din­ner, but when they don’t go to din­ner she said her mom loves to cook for every­one. Helle­busch loves the at­mos­phere of be­ing in her own home and do­ing what­ever she wants when­ever she wants.  

“I also have a job as a wait­ress that re­quires me to come home pretty of­ten too. I work in the lo­cal restau­rant called Tre­loar Bar and Grill and I typ­i­cally work in the af­ter­noon into the late evening. I love work­ing there be­cause it’s such a small town and there are a lot of fa­mil­iar faces that come in every time I work,” said Helle­busch.

To Helle­busch, fam­ily is a top pri­or­ity in her life that she will al­ways make time for. Helle­busch’s fam­ily serves as a strong sup­port sys­tem for her, and with­out them, she feels that she’d be lost. 

“I will never stop com­ing home for any rea­son what­so­ever. I love my fam­ily so much and I would­n’t be where I am in school or life with­out them. They help me every day over ob­sta­cles and they are all an out­stand­ing sup­port sys­tem. I would­n’t have any other way,” said Helle­busch.