I think a lot about my friends who just graduated or are soon to leave school.

So I've been out of college since the fall of 2012 (dropped out, not graduated). In the period immediately afterwards I had the adjustment of "what the hell do I do with my life" now that I had all this undirected free-time. Then I did whatever seemed the most interesting. Then I travelled. Then I found myself a lot more ready for settling down for school -- shit, I actually can't wait to resume. I was going to try to finish school in another state but the more mature® me realized that there are a ton of resources and advantages to doing it at home, living with mom. So that's my plan now for the next 3 years or so.

But here's the thing. It took me a while to get used to being a free, self-directed adult. And now I feel like I'm giving that up to go to school full-time again. And my friends, who are starting or are in the middle of their I-just-left-college-what-the-fuck-do-I-do adjustments, are going to, in three years when I'm done school, be in the middle of their lives. My point is that there's just a necessary and unavoidable amount of post-university discombobulation you have to get through. And the sooner you start it, the sooner you see it through to the other side. And I'm happy for you, because you're balling out (counter-radicalism?? that's awesome) and you're very young and that means you'll be very young when you're through the discombobulation.

I really like the subheader life-categories jam, I might cop that too.