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...this labeling confusion indicates, the question of when adulthood begins is unsettled across culture. Plenty of writers today have waxed eloquent about the trend of twenty-somethings that spend years in a sheltered limbo between adolescence and adulthood??a 2005 Times article called them “twixters.” People are settling down later, having children later, and it seems we can wait as long as we want to grow up. We are the product of society in which, perhaps more than ever before, age is really just a number. Independence and responsibility, the things that...
John Harvard might take offense at the suggestion that he only became a man in February of 2003, when Hillel sponsored his first bar mitzvah. Although the ceremony traditionally marks a young man or woman’s entry into Jewish adulthood??the bar mitzvah is the service held for 13-year-old boys, the bat mitzvah the equivalent for girls—it may not have held much religious meaning for the then-396-year-old John Harvard. For Hillel celebrants, the highlight of John Harvard’s bar mitzvah—now an annual event?...
This is partly an inevitable function of age and class: we are college students, usually low on funds and time and in possession of dubious proof of our drinking legality. Still, Harvard life is laden with opportunities to play at adulthood??if ones that you might never again encounter after graduation—so it follows that we undergraduates should at least consider playing gourmand.Which is why, on a recent Tuesday night, I found myself skipping Quincy dining hall in favor of Harvest restaurant and partaking of one of their regular wine dinner events. This particular dinner...
Perhaps because I’d been away from Harvard for a while, I hadn’t imagined he’d think the question an affront. After all, most Harvard students I know lack certain hallmarks of adulthood??financial self-sufficiency, for instance, or the ability to drink in moderation, or disdain for the Ben Stiller vehicle Zoolander. If pressed, I would define our stage of development as mid-adolescence. Being a grown-up, I’ve long thought, is something different, something removed and complicated—a state involving mortgages and full-time...
...realized I couldn’t go back to camp now, no matter how much I missed it. It was as if I had crossed this invisible line into adulthood??the Internship Line. I now had to wear heels to work instead of sneakers. I had to stop singing songs about underwear and start nodding off to my headphones on the subway. Gone were the days of the 3:30 ice cream refreshment. While everyone in my office heads down for their daily dosage of Starbucks, I sit at my desk forlornly because I don?...