The Social Norms of young adults in society today? The Pressure? The Guilt? Every young adult in today’s generation after high-school is expected to go to college, and get a good job, have a family, etc. I wanna shift into another sensitive topic about the social expectations in 2018 is that being gay is wrong, the color of your skin, etc. I don’t want sit here, and preach about whats right, and whats wrong. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. There are hundreds of examples of Norm Violations such as public behavior : walking on the wrong side of the sidewalks, wearing clothes backwards, eating soup with a fork. The Social Normalities can be as simple as not flushing the toilet after you use the bathroom, which even today that is beginning to be a social norm if I am gonna be honest. Breaking the social norms today startles a lot of people, and starts major controversy. Nowadays people can’t even express opinion without being judged, the public is so scared to be judged that they change their personal image to someone they aren’t. Lets bring it back to the topic of young adults going to college. As a college student myself its hard, coming out of high school being 18, they expect you to know what you wanna do for the next 30+ years of their life. Kids will start college, and find out it’s not for them, and dropout. Which then they are looked at as a failure, or not educated enough for opinions. I’ve seen it firsthand. College isn’t easy , the financial hardships? debt? Hard work? just to maybe get a job when you graduate. College is primarily one of the biggest scams with a bigger risk, than reward. Most people aren’t willing to take that risk, and are finding better ways of income which is okay, but apparently not the social norm. College Undergrads are even overly judged on what major they take up. Students, parents, will try and decide what you want to do with your life. For example Art Majors I feel are constantly made to seem like their futures are gonna be in the garbage making no money. How do you think that person feels? You just potentially made that student feel insecure, and look into changing his/her career path just with a couple of unjustified words said. This just doesn’t go for art majors this goes for all majors that society thinks are under performing in the real world. Just wanted to remind the viewers/readers that I am not trying to change the minds of how people think, or how they live their life personally. It’s just a topic that always seem to be a problem, and that I address on certain occasions when neccessary. Proving a point that the perfect adult just isn’t made the “perfect” way anymore. More resources, more connections, different oppurtunities, specific requirements are all in the hands of young adults now, and can be used to their advantage. The Social Norms are changing through generations, and the generation I live in currently is changing right in front of my eyes.