Today I was asked " I know you can't wait to get back home to your mother's cooking and I replied. Well not really, and not because I don't like it but because my mom passed away last month. I miss her so much and it hurts from time to time. I'm holding up pretty well, but my grades are suffering. I need to get my act together because my mother and father would have wanted me to graduate from college and that is what I am going to do.