Thoughts of a Gen-Y Millennial in a Social Media World
Last week I picked up something that most Millennials wouldn’t even think about touching. A newspaper. I was about to fly back to Washington, DC from Des Moines and my hotel left a USA Today outside my door. I picked it up, thinking I could read it during my least favorite part of a flight: the take-off. [...]
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(Photo Erin McCann) I’m generally not a fan of the term “Quarterlife crisis.” I would traditionally dismiss such a notion as “that’s just growing up, deal with it.” However, I think there are significant milestones as we reach adulthood where we come to understand just what it means to be on our own and making our [...]
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Do you ever wonder what your eight-year-old self or even your fifteen-year-old self would think of you now? I read an article last fall about this idea, and I thought it was an interesting concept to think about. Are you in a place you always hoped to be? Would your younger self, full of dreams [...]
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I am the only child of a blue collar, working class Southern family. It’s not an uncommon label, I’m sure, but it has born much significance in my journey to adulthood. As a kid and teenager growing up, I was acutely aware that much hope was being heaped upon my shoulders: hope that I would [...]
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In most senses, I’ve avoided the Quarter-Life Crisis. As I approached 25 I was concerned, as I was about to be laid off, had not yet applied to grad school, and was dating (mostly unsuccessfully) just about everything that moved. Stability seemed far off. But just over halfway to my 26th birthday, everything is different. [...]
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Ah…the Quarterlife Crisis. It was something I struggled with when I turned 25, because like so many 20-somethings, I didn’t feel like my life was where it was supposed to be. Luckily for me, 3 months later, I got a promotion, and was so busy looking out the window of my shiny new office and [...]
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Just recently, I entered the “real world.” That mystical place we know, really, as simply “after college.” The part of life after we’ve outgrown the frat parties, campus events, free pizza, and dormitories. That time when, perhaps, we finally get to enjoy life as it should be. I hear over and over, “Just wait, in [...]
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I hated college. Not the learning part – but just about everything else. A typical weekend for me was heading to the movies (normally alone – for about 2-3 years), reading backlogs of old Dilbert strips or staring amorously at pictures of Sasuke Uchiha. I spent my entire college career wondering if there was something [...]
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I’m 27 and I feel like I JUST graduated College When I graduate college in 2005 I had NO idea what I wanted to do with my life. So I choose to stay in college by working for a college. I started coaching intercollegiate athletics. This career path gave me the ability to essentially stay [...]
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