25 years old and deep in debt

[Camerus]

Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too

Hooking up is a functional strategy for today's hard-charging and ambitious young women, allowing them to have enjoyable sex lives while focusing most of their energy on academic and professional goals.
...
Now, she said, she and her best friend had changed their romantic goals, from finding boyfriends to finding "hookup buddies," which she described as "a guy that we don't actually really like his personality, but we think is really attractive and hot and good in bed."
...
One girl, explaining why her encounters freshman and sophomore year often ended with fellatio, said that usually by the time she got back to a guy's room, she was starting to sober up and didn't want to be there anymore, and giving the guy oral sex was an easy way to wrap things up and leave.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/fashion/sex-on-campus-she-can-play-that-game-too.html

Doesn't sound that enjoyable.

[Camerus]

I do wonder more and more these days whether unbridled hedonism - or attempts at it - could ever bring much happiness. But then, perhaps I'm just turning into an Old.

[Admiral Yi]

Sounds to me like hedonism has very little to do with it.

[Camerus]

How so?

[Admiral Yi]

In the sense that hedonism is about pleasure, and what's described there sounds more like work that has to be performed to achieve status, or to fit in.

[Legbiter]

In the sense that hedonism is about pleasure, and what's described there sounds more like work that has to be performed to achieve status, or to fit in.

Yep.

[Camerus]

In the sense that hedonism is about pleasure, and what's described there sounds more like work that has to be performed to achieve status, or to fit in.

Not really. I'm not sure that the hard-driving CEO of tomorrow archetype that that article alludes to is terribly representative of the hedonistic hookup culture, even if you accept the premise that the career and emotional spheres can be separated (which I don't).

[Phillip V]

Graduates During Worst Years Still Face Few Prospects

'College graduates from two or three years ago, during one of the worst jobs markets in history, are being overlooked by recruiters eager to scoop up those from the latest graduating class.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/recent-graduates-lose-out-to-those-with-even-fresher-degrees.html

[Darth Wagtaros]

No surprise. Not long ago Gen Xers were being tossed aside forthe obnoxious Millennials.

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-income-ladder-location-matters.html

Could be titled: "Why I left Ohio."


With map.

In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
...

..."Where you grow up matters," said Nathaniel Hendren, a Harvard economist and one of the study's authors. "There is tremendous variation across the U.S. in the extent to which kids can rise out of poverty."

What they found surprised them, said Raj Chetty, one of the authors and the most recent winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, which the American Economic Association awards to the country's best academic economist under the age of 40.
The researchers concluded that larger tax credits for the poor and higher taxes on the affluent seemed to improve income mobility only slightly. The economists also found only modest or no correlation between mobility and the number of local colleges and their tuition rates or between mobility and the amount of extreme wealth in a region.
But the researchers identified four broad factors that appeared to affect income mobility, including the size and dispersion of the local middle class. All else being equal, upward mobility tended to be higher in metropolitan areas where poor families were more dispersed among mixed-income neighborhoods.
Income mobility was also higher in areas with more two-parent households, better elementary schools and high schools, and more civic engagement, including membership in religious and community groups.

So I guess George Lucas has it right, and we should be putting low-income housing in rich neighborhoods.

[garbon]

http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

[MadImmortalMan]

Quit bragging.

[Jacob]

Quit bragging.

It's garbon. He's second only to Martinus in terms of the effort he puts in to making sure people know how great he thinks he is.

[merithyn]

http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

My alma mater is #183. 

[Valmy]

http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/

My alma mater is #183. 

#66 and #132