Being an adult. It is hard. I think it doesn’t start to hit you until you are in your twenties. Maybe closer to mid-twenties. You start to have that quarter-life crisis and well, things go downhill from there. I have to say, I am really excited to be writing for this blog. I want to chronicle my twenties and what better way than to do that with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.

I have been in school for awhile. I graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the State University of New York at Cortland in the summer of 2008.

SUNY Cortland Graduate

Since then, I have been working on my M.S. in Adolescent Inclusive English Education at the University of Rochester. Right now, I am immersed in my life as a student and… well, a teacher. I am about to answer the question my students ask of me all the time. “How old are you Ms. Moraites?” Well, folks, I am half-way through being twenty-three.

University of Rochester Warner Graduate School

I hope to share some of those things that I have learned along the way. One of the biggest lessons for me right now is that it is difficult being an adult. It is hard to grow up. All of the sudden — it is like, BAM. Life hits you smack dab in the middle of the face. Phone bills. Electric bills. RENT. Internet bills. Car bills. Groceries. Credit card bills. Student loan bills. Bills, bill, and more bills! Not to mention all of the sudden you have to make your own dentist and doctor appointments. Eye exams are no longer paid by your parents and you start making decisions based on “hmm, how many weeks of groceries will this cost??”

All I can say is this, being an adult is, well, kind of hard. There are a lot of responsibilities. I still run to my parents in desperation. And they are pretty supportive of me, but when I look back, how did I become an adult all of the sudden? I am suddenly a graduate student?  I am going to graduate in May, and then I have to look for a real job? *gasp* How did this happen? Well, it does and it did. In what seems to me — OVERNIGHT! Welcome to the real world, Bekah. And welcome to 20Somethings.