Are you 18-25?

[Siren]

If you are, I need you

Most of my family and friends are either over or below this age group and I can't use them. I have some questions I need to ask for a paper that is due soon for my Human Development and Family Studies class. If you are and are willing to answer these questions that would be great. No personal details are shared including your answers. I just need some responses to generate a conclusion. You can either post your response here or PM them to me.

• Do you feel like you know who you are, or are you still exploring your identity?
  
• Have you changed your college major or career path since graduating high school? If so, please describe.
  
• Do you believe that you will get where you want to be in life? Please describe.
  
• Do you feel that you have achieved adulthood? Please describe.
  

[CHINESE BABOON]

* I feel like my morals that my parents taught are already cemented into me. My religious views have been pretty concrete BUT I always question my actions, motives, quit bad habits and begin new ones. So in a sense I know who I am at my core but have no idea where I'll live, who I'll marry, where I'll work in 10 years, ect. It's nerve racking but exciting at the same time. Over the last 4 years of college my views on homosexuality, alcohol, politics, marijuana, ect have all shifted and for the better I believe.

* I went to college to be an Engineer, and attending Penn State made perfect sense. Top 10 Engineering program, in state and most Engineering firms in state hire from Penn State. I had a hard time adjusting to college life, being on my own, making my own decisions, and balancing my social life with my class work. After 2 years I had a GPA below 2.0 and had to switch majors to Economics. Thankfully, one of the many perks of going to a large school is that most programs at Penn state are world class and I can receive a world class education in Economics.

* I think I'll achieve what I want in life. I'm taking fitness walking this semester and the professor, Coach Morse, is arguably my favorite professor I've had. Despite his class being a blow-off course, he tries to spend 5-10 mins at the end of each class to give a mini team pep-talk/sermon about life. One class he made us write down where we want to be in 10 years, goals, jobs, ect. Then he asked if we had all we wished for in 10 years would we be happy? He stressed that happiness isn;t in jobs, or houses or things but in people and relationships with others and how you can never be happy if you aren't happy with who you are. I always look forward going to his class and unlike 4 years ago, my goals in life now aren't a world class job, houses, cars ect. That would be nice but I hope to meet the right person, get married, have kids and keep in touch with the many friends I've made in college.

* I believe I've reached adulthood. Fiscally I'm pretty much self-dependent, pay my bills, set my schedule, could essentially survive on my own. On the otherside I believe I'm emotionally and socially an adult now too. The days where I wanted to get trashed on Natty-Lite at Frats are long gone, and I know I'm grown-up when I start feeling nervous being around kids a few years younger then me acting immature, like my head thinking when they're near "Oh God, don't hit me with your car teen girl on your phone texting" or "I swear to God if these kids hit me with their hacky-sack again"... It's kinda depressing feeling older now too. My friends and I used to go to the bar and talk about our sex lives, movies, music, ect. Just about 2 years later we now meet at 6 pm instead of 10 pm at the bar, talk about corporate bosses who ere douches, new upgrades in software, how our email at work was broken, and reminiscing about the old days before we go home at 8, 9 pm at the latest to look forward to another dull day at work. So yeah, I'm still young but I feel disconnected from my college-self and almost completely enwrapped in the suffocation of adulthood. Uggh.

[NightWing XII]

1. I feel I know myself as well as I'm ever going to. I've reached a point were I no longer try to change aspects of my personality that I don't like or act in ways I feel others would prefer. I accept myself for who I am.

2. Yes I went to University to study to become a Lawyer. In my second year I realised that I had made this choice through a combination of having no idea what I actually wanted to do with my life and wanting to please my parents. I now know that my parents just want me to be happy doing whatever I want to do. I also realised that I want to persue a career as a police officer (I am in the application process now).

3. I'm not sure I will get exactly where I want to be but I have faith that I will get to a point where I am happy and satisfied with my life.

4. While I have grown up alot in the past 3 years I believe that I still lack some fundemental experiences that define a true adult namely marriage and kids because the responsibilites that those entail are a step to gaining full maturity.

[Siren]

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. Also thanks to the ones that sent PM's. It means a lot

[Avahra]

anything for you!

[Nick]

If you are, I need you

Most of my family and friends are either over or below this age group and I can't use them. I have some questions I need to ask for a paper that is due soon for my Human Development and Family Studies class. If you are and are willing to answer these questions that would be great. No personal details are shared including your answers. I just need some responses to generate a conclusion. You can either post your response here or PM them to me.

• Do you feel like you know who you are, or are you still exploring your identity?
  
• Have you changed your college major or career path since graduating high school? If so, please describe.
  
• Do you believe that you will get where you want to be in life? Please describe.
  
• Do you feel that you have achieved adulthood? Please describe.
  

I don't know if it's too late for this but here's my go! I'm 20, for what it's worth.

1. I feel like I've reached a point in my life where I know who I am and how I identify myself. Although I'm young and have yet to have the experiences and whatnot of someone older, I feel like I've had enough and have learned enough from these situations to gauge how I would handle myself in ones that I have yet to experience.

2. I have changed my college major/career path. Going into college from high school, I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something, at first, to do with computers. Then I wanted to be a Math major. I spent two years in school and have left since then. I'm now working in shipping and receiving but have plans to return this upcoming semester part time to work towards Education for high school. I'd love to teach History.

3. I feel like I will get to where I want to. It may not be where I see myself now but no matter where I end up, I'll make the best of it.

4. I don't feel like I've reached adulthood. Although I am fiscally independent, take care of myself, etc. I still live at home and don't feel all that grown up. I feel like I lack some certain experiences that push people into the so-called "adulthood." I'm still good friends with the friends I made in high school and hanging around with them never makes me feel that grown up feel. I think no matter how far I get in life or how old I'll never quite feel like an adult.