Here’s what I never realized about being an adult…until now. 1. Staying up late is, like, a terrible idea It never fails.

My quirkiness and screw-ups are mine to deal with alone. You suddenly have more time and money than you’re used to. There’s a saying that you either have time or money, not both.

And who knows, perhaps, one day, that dream job will come along, or I will create it myself. But I know that none of this would have been possible for me, had I not gone to shool in the first place.

Suddenly, those exhausted parents you used to side-eye seem like warriors. You realize that most of them aren’t “bad parents” for letting their kid scream—they’re just human beings doing ...