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Were You ‘Adrift’ at 22?

By  Vincent DeFrancesco
September 2, 2014
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Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa surveyed more than 900 members of the Class of 2009 about their employment status, finances, civic involvement, living situation, and relationships for their new book, Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates.

Many graduates, they discovered, were struggling to find their way. Is that a new phenomenon, or do people typically take a little while to get themselves together in the years after college?

So, cast your mind back. Did you have things figured out? Were you flailing? A little of both? Find out by taking this scientifically unsound quiz, which is liberally adapted from the survey Mr. Arum and Ms. Roksa used.

At 22, many graduates, Mr. Arum and Ms. Roksa discovered, were struggling to find their way. At 22, you were...
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