Guest Editorial

"What does it feel like growing up?" my six-year-old brother asks.

"It feels like a crushing sense of obligation paired with the absence of monetary gain." I answered sarcastically. I highly doubt he understood what I had said, but he had a retort regardless.

"And bank robbing?"

There has been no bank robbing involved in my coming-of-age, but I think that this barely knee-high child was on to something; what exactly does the concept of "growing up" entail? At eighteen years old, I don't believe I've quite begun to understand. Pop culture seems to define growing up as parallel to cliques such a...