"20 Something"

So you go to highschool, and your either get a job or you move on to college. After four years (or 4.5 years or more if you’re a slacker!) it’s time to leave campus for the final time ever! (If its Rowan just make sure you don’t get run over by a truck barreling down US ROUTE 322) .A man in a nice suit smiles hands you a piece of paper and gestures you to your new life.

You feel like you just won the lottery! You have a dream job where you work 9-5 with great benefits, you have a trendy clean apartment, and you still have plenty of time to loaf around with your friends and talk about sex like on those sitcoms. Oh yeah and you just found your life partner who is as sweet as they are good looking.

Then suddenly your alarm goes off and you have to make it your crumby job that you feel is beneath you. Perhaps you prolong the student experience by going to Grad. School with still no real goals. Or maybe you just want to sleep till 2 pm get up watch some tv, and go out and drink. And of course you start listening to John Mayer CDs all the time.

If you experienced anything in the 3rd paragraph you might, might be experiencing a fairly new “buzz” term called the quarter life crisis. Something I learned about from another student’s research project last semester. Apparently, this guy wrote a book about how people just become over whelmed once they finish college. The age group are people in their mid 20's (hence the phrase quarter) Often times resulting in depressesion, distancing from friends, questioning oneself etc, etc,. Im not sure we are the first generation to be filled with self-doubt about our future. And this guy who wrote the book certainly found a market to cash in on. However, the 2000 Census reports that 53 % of all men and women between the ages of 18-24 live at home. A much high number than I would have thought. They have their own website so it must be true!!!! http://www.quarterlifecrisis.com/

Is something that has been around all the time and just for some reason got the attention out of nowhere. Kinda like El Nino a few years ago? Or is it the MTV generation is too spoiled rotten and had it too good their whole life that they can’t make up their minds about what they want to do with all their pent up drive? Id ask you to comment but that would just be silly. You can think about it I than write your answer on a piece of paper and throw it away, successfully wasting 30 seconds of your day. You will be glad you did.

Oh yeah, Mosoco sent me his score. He got a 160. Did Dan K., Drew and Cookiepuss cheat on the IQ test when they had that sleepover at the village last weekend? They are such good friends I would not put that past them!