Anti-Climacus

SO DOES THIS MEAN WE'RE, LIKE, ADULTS AND STUFF:

A hearty congratulations to Sara Butler on her upcoming employment. I don't know much about the Insitute for American Values, but if they have Jean Bethke Elshtain, they have to be wicked good.

This and the end of undergrad party they're having at Crescat Sententia, as well as dinner last week with my friend who's getting married (and additionally finding out that one of my friends from high school is both married and with child), and my own impending launch into grad school make me wonder: at what point do we all actually become adults? I reflected earlier this week that by the time my parents were this age, they were already married, my father'd already gotten a job with the company he's still with (albeit in a much higher position within the company), and they were a year away from home ownership and having my older brother. So that's four signs of definite adult-type maturity right there; most people I know are managing along with one (or, at most, two). So I wonder: is it just an intergenerational norm shift? Or is it (again I go with the selection bias) that most of the people I know are going on to grad or professional school, and it's actually normal to delay marriage, home purchase, etc, amongst these people, and it always has been?