"Adulting" is a term that basically defines any task that adults can do and children can not. College students everywhere are in a strange, gray area where they know how to handle themselves in some ways, and are completely at a loss in others. I could talk for days about how high school curriculum hardly do a damn thing to prepare students for real life, but instead I'm going to focus on some of the ways we are failing at being adults without even realizing it.
There are a few, very basic needs that every human being has, one very important one being food. I remember a home economics course that I took in high school, and in an entire year I learned how to make my own soccer ball pillow and make a pizza roll from scratch. I can guarantee there are students in those classes that learned even less than that. Why is this so important? Who gives a shit about a pizza roll from the seventh grade? Every meal I've attempted to cook on my own dime in college (and the people eating them), that's who. Fortunately for myself, I learned how to cook pretty well in the past couple of years having lived on my own, but how many students haven't yet? Our bank accounts are drained, and you can share as many cute posts as you want about how you spend money on food instead of partying, but that won't change the fact that you can't feed yourself and you're broke. Take the time to learn some basic cooking skills; the kitchen might become your happy place once it starts saving you money.
How many of us have had to schedule a doctor's appointment and called our parents to have them do it instead? How many time have we completely avoided taking care of anything to do with finances until the last second and then lied in a pool of our own tears trying to deal with it? I've done a load of laundry and ruined an article of clothing in the process more times than I can count. There is so much that we still don't know.
Wake up, people. We have to take care of ourselves very, very soon. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't want to be a college graduate that still calls my mom every time something goes wrong. Honestly, we have more accessibility to information than any other generation because of the internet and how well we're all able to use it. If you don't know how to make dinner, google something. Watch a tutorial. We may not have the skills yet, but we have the means to gain them, and time is running out.
