The time has come. You are going to bed for the last time as a teenager to wake up to a new decade full of expectations: graduation, marriage, good job, kids. These are the last few moments you have of being a true teenager. What will you do with it?

As you wake up, the world will feel the same but you will not be. You will now answer your age as twenty. You are now still dumb enough to make wrong decisions but are now expected to be smart enough to know the difference. The vision board and lists of lifetime goals is now expected to become your truth...and soon.

You're now moving into the territory where conversations will slowly move towards "what will you do after graduation?" and "have you met someone yet?". Though school is part of your life for the next couple of years, you're embarking on the time of your life where school is no longer a part of you. You are now expected to be...AN ADULT.

Throughout the past few weeks, I've been doing the best I can to explain the terror that rips through so many young people's bones as they escape their teenage years (and teenage pregnancy….YAY!) and encroach upon the dreaded dark path of TRUE ADULTHOOD. We can't help but panic.

You came into college as an 18 year old with nothing but the next four years in the front of your mind. Parties, fun, friends, class, and finally getting to become what you've wanted to be for your whole life...but you never could see beyond that. The future was foggy but now the future is here and as you are dealing with the reality of that statement you don't even know what to do.

The sum of the human life was once based on five different periods of time: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death. Right now, you are technically an adult because you can vote but since you're 20 now, consider yourself halfway to an AARP card.

This time of life is scary because the world is constantly changing in the time that you have to become a real life "person" in. In 10 years, the careers you may be going college for could be filled or completely eliminated but you won't know until you get there, if you ever even do.

To those in the older generations reading this piece, my 20 year life crisis might seem like another ridiculous ploy at Gen Z not being fit to take on the world after you MIGHTY soldiers leave it. That is not the case.

Turning 20 is something I am legitimately terrified of. I can't even talk about my birthday right now because the fact is that I have only 2 weeks until I, too, will take the leap and jump into the abyss.

As I look around and all of my friends are engaging in successful activities that are included within adulthood (internships, jobs, cars, apartments, homes, love lifes, engagements, children), I can't help but panic because I can easily count how many of those things I have...zero. So if I am expected to be a functioning adult and all I have to show for it is a degree and nothing else, then what?

Now what?