Teenage Reditors, what's the worst part of being a teenager these days?

The pressure of being expected to go to a good college as you anxiously hear about student debt

getting higher and higher. You kind of think it would be cool, but you're scared out of your

mind of the prospect of being in debt for so many years after you graduate. At the same time

as everyone's assuring you that if you don't go to college,

you're a loser idiot who will work at McDonald's forever. Also, the idiotic technology stigma from older

generations. I was reading a book on a Kindle for English and my French class, and she not only

took it away from me, but yelled at me for texting during class. I tried to tell her that the thing was literally

a slightly more advanced book, but she refused to believe me. On the same note, how online friends

are considered not real because they're totally computer programs and not people on the other

side of the monitor. My parents always tease me about not having many friends. When I do ask to go over to

someone's house or vice versa, they say no. They want me to make friends without being with friends.

Also, very high expectations suck. High expectations comes from every parent across every generation.

I can promise you that. Having everyone ask what you want to do with your life.

I don't even know what I want for breakfast. Everything is taken 20 times more serious. I got a 10-day

suspension for a freaking box cutter in my car for work. I'm a straight-day student with perfect

behavior. My dad points out in front of the whole school board that in the 70s, he had a shotgun in his car for hunting while he was at school.

Yeah, times have changed. I would think a box cutter is being a little overly cautious, though.

Being treated like a child and then expecting us to act like adults and take on adult responsibilities the moment we turn 18.

Again, generally applies to every generation.

College educations cost more and mean less. Getting a degree is basically expected of us,

and the great jobs that you're promised aren't always there when you're done. Storekeepers

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