25 years old and deep in debt

[Camerus]

Yeah, no kidding.  There are a million interesting ways to spend the summers, some of which are paid.  To me working as a cashier at Best Buy is only something I'd do if I were desperate, but I admit that may not be true for everyone.

Gee, you make it sound like jobs are plentiful, and everyone has the pick of their choosing.  It must be nice to live on your planet.

The dude already had a job in this scenario.

[Phillip V]

Third of student loan borrowers never earned degree

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57591376/third-of-student-loan-borrowers-never-earned-degree/

[The Brain]

Third of student loan borrowers never earned degree

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57591376/third-of-student-loan-borrowers-never-earned-degree/

They still got it, right?

[Phillip V]

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

[garbon]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

[Eddie Teach]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

Don't all major papers have a "lifestyle" section? Well, besides maybe the WSJ.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

The idea that young 21st century women may behave like young 21st century women is newsworthy.

[garbon]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

Don't all major papers have a "lifestyle" section? Well, besides maybe the WSJ.

Sure but you'd think it'd want to covering something vaguely interesting and not the standard of behavior in college for at least the past decade.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

The idea that young 21st century women may behave like young 21st century women is newsworthy.

Newspaper subscribers are 20th century men and women, so they don't know such things.

[garbon]

I don't understand why the NYT is having a piece on that. So what?

The idea that young 21st century women may behave like young 21st century women is newsworthy.

Newspaper subscribers are 20th century men and women, so they don't know such things.

Disagree that people reading the NYT, particularly online, wouldn't be aware of that trend.

[Valmy]

Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too

So people thought only men were having sex on campus?  Who did they thing they were having sex with?

NYT readers seemed to think college was just one big gay sex orgy after the next.

[The Brain]

In the ask the shrink part of "my" paper today a slut wondered why men don't respect her.

[Eddie Teach]

When you get whole packs of them regularly, they tend to lose their value.

[Phillip V]

Student Debt Derails Dreams of Parenthood

The U.S. birth rate has generally fallen since the Great Recession began in 2007, and some of the sharpest drops have been among women in their 20s. In 2011, the birth rate for those 20 to 24 hit a record low of 85.3 births per 1,000 women, according to the most recent detailed data available from the Centers for Disease Control.

For the 25-to-29 group, the birth rate of 107.2 births per 1,000 women was the lowest since 1976.
...
Many people appear to have deferred having kids not because they lost their job or had some other setback, but because they're afraid they could be next to get a pink slip or eviction notice. "There's no way that the whole birth dearth has been driven by only the foreclosed, or only the unemployed," Schneider said.

It's not clear when those would-be parents will start to feel secure enough to make the economic commitment of having a family.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/07/10/How-Student-Debt-Derails-Dreams-Of-Parenthood.aspx

[Razgovory]

I've never even gotten a speeding ticket.  I am the very model of a modern model citizen.

Got a speeding ticket, no biggy.  Never arrested.  I got cuffed once, but convinced the officer that it wasn't a good idea to take me in.