Jacob Sutton Seminar-Fall 2018

Jacob Sutton Dr. Mirskin Everything Stays the Same When I opened up my laptop to begin writing this blog, I pulled up a google doc and proceeded to have a staring contest with the white page about fifteen minutes.  My hands hadn’t even touched the keyboard.  My friend sitting next to me on the bus at the time actually started laughing, asking me if I was okay.  Truthfully, there was just so much I wanted to write about that I couldn’t think about how to start.  Going back home for October and thanksgiving break, I was immediately overwhelmed each time by how much I had changed as a person.  Sure, physically everything was the same!  My family was still the same, my little Brooklyn neighborhood was the same…. But I was already a completely different person.  I could talk forever about how I had become more independent, hard working, easy going and just overall mature.  Instead of focusing on how I’v...

Jacob Sutton Dr. Mirskin More and more I am starting to believe that adulthood is a social construct.  It is more the idea of the "adult roles" you take on such as you mature throughout life that make people think think you're an adult.  Do you pay the mortgage?  Are you living independently?  Have you finally moved out of your parents' house?  Are you financially independent?  All of these things are the roles that society tells a group of people that they need to fit.  I mean, think about it.  Teenagers feel as though they need to fit certain stereotypes and roles that society throws at them all the time.  Everyone, no matter what age you are or where you come from is just so used to just being thrown into a box.  When you break out of that box, it is surprising... and possibly unsettling for another group.  For example, if an "adult" were to, say, still be living with their parents, that would surprise many people.  Bec...