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New week, new series. If there’s one thing we 20-nothings do very well it’s maintain that we have no clue as to how to direct our own personal and professional lives while being fully in control of how everyone around us should live theirs’. It’s not that we’re hypocrites (though many of us are that too) – it’s more like we’re chronic back seat drivers …

–> I knew my life in LA would be different than my life in New York, but I didn’t really know how – and that’s both how it would be different and how different it would be. The answer is very – very, very, very but what’s weird is that it’s not a difference I day-to-day feel. I guess some people – in this case …

I was against Twitter the first time I heard about it. It was two, maybe two and a half years ago, and David and I were having one of our 8:00am Grey Dog catch-up breakfasts in which he lectures me about how to get more traffic for the blog, I lecture him about how to properly date women, and neither of us really listens. Joining …

I’m always torn when things like this pop up. “Things like this” being the sex diary of a former Duke student that went viral early this week. On the one hand I want to say, “who cares?” or “that’s interesting” or “wow guys really have terrible grammar when sexting” but then on the other I think, “this is an example of really immature behavior that’s …

I was among the earliest people (outside of Harvard people) to start using The Facebook – so early that it was still called The Facebook when I joined. It was 2004 – my junior year at Boston College – and I was studying abroad in Florence. I remember getting an IM (because that was still happening) from a friend who didn’t go abroad about this …

The other day I grabbed my phone to call one of my very best friends. It was, I don’t know, maybe 7pm? There was a chance she was home, but she’s been pulling insane hours at the office, so probably not. I grabbed the phone, pulled up her cell number, and then stopped. …maybe I should just text her that I need to talk to …

Your responses so far to the “AT 20 _____ I FEEL _______” PROJECT have been incredible. Thank you, and please keep them coming! Below is a little fuel to add to the thought-fire from someone on the other side of the 20-something life stage. Her assessment of what we’re going through comes with both the perspective of someone who was once in this same position …