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The term “adulting” creates distance between oneself and what are implied to be “actual” adults who are adulting 100 percent of the time and therefore have little reason to acknowledge it, according to Time Magazine.
University students have different viewpoints on the adult world as they go through years studying on a college campus. Although it’s a reality we will all face sooner or later, few students take time to reflect on the life waiting for them after graduation.
Adenin Henriquez, a sophomore nursing major shares her thoughts about the world after college.
“After college, [adulting] means having a legitimate, salary paying job in the career path that you studied for,” she said.
Henriquez believes that not knowing what your future will turn out to be makes adult life a bit frightening.
“It’s scary because you don’t really know what comes with it in regards to stress and the amount of work that you have to put in at an actual job,” Henriquez said. “Though after you get the hang of it, I think it gets a bit easier because once you are financially stable, you can enjoy your life and not worry about balancing school with extracurricular activities and clubs.”
As life after college is unpredictable, Henriquez says, she recommends keeping a positive attitude and an open mind.
“What you have to look forward to once you graduate and become [an] adult is that school only helps prepare you to make a sense of your life, but you realize that making sense of the world and what goes on in your life is a lifelong process,” said FIU alumnus Aaron Rubin, who graduated two years ago with a bachelor’s degree in economics. “A process that you only begin to recognize once you are leaving college and not while you are in college.”
For students like Samuel Cohen, senior majoring in Asian studies, the term is just a reflection of the expectations imposed on us as we get older.
“There is no reality to it; I think all it ends up coming to is us being expected to meet a fabricated ideal of what it means to be an adult,” he said.
Other students think adulting is the part of one’s life where they get to enjoy the fruits of their hard work in college.
“Being an adult does not only mean to financial stable but it also means to be entirely responsible for whatever situation you may being in,” said international student Anjali Thota, majoring in civil engineering. “When you have classes, deadlines, work and such, it is your responsibility as an adult to be on top of everything.”
Thota believes students should prepare for the real world after college by using their current experiences to gain and improve their time management, communication, social skills and so on.
“Life will change radically after college and we must be prepare to adapt to it and successfully thrive in the work environment for instance,” Thota said.
Being an adult is also about paying taxes, fulfilling your civic duties and becoming an active member of your community, says Thota.
She encourages students to work hard now in college because with that mindset, success will surely follow. According to Thota, college is the harder portion of a student’s life and adulting will be more enjoyable as they work in their preferred career choice.
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