THOUGHTS
Confessions of a Gen Y Kid: College Life
The civics lessons of our era intermingled with our emerging adulthood — and we boarded that final Crazy Train toward a thankless contemporary roasting
In the first three installments of this four-part series entitled “Confessions of a Gen Y Kid,” I’ve explored Millennial life experiences across three different categories: K-12 Education, Pop Culture, and Electronic Media.
Now, for this final edition, I’ll focus on how our college days and political circumstances fused together to shape our embittered and jaded mindsets.
The Lewinsky/Columbine Days
As the 1990s began to wind down (and gave way to the aughts), media commentators endlessly speculated on what the turn-of-the-century would bring.
Depending on your birthyear…the youngest Millennials were in preschool and Kindergarten when Bill Clinton was impeached, and the oldest were graduating high school or positioned a couple of years away from graduation amidst this flurry of Monicagate.
For me, it was my sophomore year of high school when the story broke. I remember reading an article in my high school economics class where Matt Drudge was…
