{"616041":{"#nid":"616041","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A College Professor Who Taught a Course on \u0027Adulting\u0027 Says Millennials Don\u0027t Consider Themselves Adults until a Milestone They\u0027re Delaying Longer than Ever","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/rebekah-fitzsimmons\u0022\u003ERebekah Fitzsimmons\u003C\/a\u003E, Brittain Fellow in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ES\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Echool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, was recently featured in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBusiness Insider\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;A College Professor Who Taught a Course on \u0026#39;Adulting\u0026#39; Says Millennials Don\u0026#39;t Consider Themselves Adults until a Milestone They\u0026#39;re Delaying Longer than Ever.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead an excerpt here:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEarly on, the professor learned that her students \u0026mdash; who comprised the youngest members of the millennial generation \u0026mdash; didn\u0026#39;t consider themselves adults. That gave way to one of the main themes of the class: that adulthood starts later for young people today than ever before.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;In previous generations, that maybe happened a little bit sooner, a little bit younger, and there were clear demarcations for, hey, that person\u0026#39;s a grown-up,\u0026quot; Fitzsimmons told Business Insider.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2018\/11\/06\/getting-know-georgia-tech-jackson-caruso?utm_campaign=daily-digest\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=dd-article:10170|2019-01-03\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2018\/12\/facebook-instagram-addictive-painkillers\/www.iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-01-07 21:06:04","changed_gmt":"2019-01-07 21:06:04","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"LZRD sleeve","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/when-does-adulthood-begin-adulting-2019-1","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616040":{"id":"616040","type":"image","title":"Rebekah Fitzsimmons","body":null,"created":"1546895151","gmt_created":"2019-01-07 21:05:51","changed":"1546895151","gmt_changed":"2019-01-07 21:05:51","alt":"Portrait photo of Rebekah Fitzsimmons","file":{"fid":"234491","name":"fitzsimmons.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12389,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fitzsimmons.jpg?itok=o-ElioAi"}}},"media_ids":["616040"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180085","name":"Rebekah Fitzsimmons"},{"id":"11202","name":"Brittain Fellows"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}