For the first two years Danielle Barker attended UW-Madison, almost every phone call home â?? and they were pretty much daily â?? involved tears.
“I would just bawl. I’d have these conversations with my mom, ‘I’m just not happy, I don’t want to be here,’ ” recalled Barker, now a fifth-year senior from Racine. “I listen now to my mom say how heart-wrenching it was for her that I was so very, very homesick.