Category / 2020 / Age / Themes

As I’m scrolling endlessly on the timeline on whichever social media platform at two A.M., I’ll surely occasionally come across the phrase: “I’m finally adulting!” or alternatively, a twenty-something desperately scrambling to solve some comically mundane problem pleading that they “need a real adult!”  But what does it actually mean to be an adult? Legally,…

You open your Facebook newsfeed and mindlessly scroll. You browse news from your favorite sports teams and pictures of cute dogs, but soon you notice that everywhere you look, you see parents posting about their kids. As a new parent, you’re confused and slightly worried. Will other parents judge you if you don’t share photos…

If you asked me to pick the most tired political platitude of the last decade, I would have to respond with the trope of “Millennial murder.” In the mid-2010s, it was almost impossible to go a month without hearing a new story about how millennials were killing some industry — homeownership, diamonds, mayonnaise, you name…

The status quo has shifted dramatically over the past four or five decades to one where inequality is rampant but ignored. Illegal wars are declared and immeasurable lives are lost, but are dismissed for the sake of ‘national security.’ The destruction of our planet remains on most governments’ peripheries despite fires encroaching on backyards. Undoubtedly,…

The recent surge of youth-led social movements has led many to claim that youth activism is on the rise. Looking at history, it is clear that young people have often been on the forefront of social change. We can see examples of youth activism in the US by looking back to the 1960s. Students were…

I—like many students who were home over fall break—went to the mall. My sister and I spent a day at the mall because we were on a very specific mission: to find our mom a birthday gift. After an hour or so of no luck, we decided to split our efforts and go to different…

  “Tik Tok is the first thing that’s actually made me feel old,” a friend recently said to me, and I couldn’t help but agree. In the two years since its release, Tik Tok has become a viral sensation. It was the third-most downloaded app of 2019, surpassing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Vox called it…