• idiomaddict
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I started teaching 19 year olds when I was in my early thirties, and holy shit. Nothing makes you feel older (in a good way and a bad way)

    First: they were culturally distinct from me, which I hadn’t noticed before with Gen Z, but being in a group of them made it noticeable. Second: they don’t know how to drink, but lord do they try- my students pregamed a night at a beer bar with vodka and red wine. Third: I learned a lot in my 20s.

    • StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today
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      1 month ago

      What about tracking the people that were born the year you graduated highschool? That’s a classic way to feel old.