College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults

LIFE’S TOUGH; GROW UP

At East Carolina University, the poor dears are so stressed the school is offering ‘resilience’ education—a fancy of way of saying how to be a grown-up.

Published Sep. 1 2016 1:00AM EDT

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Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For America’s increasingly fragile college students—thousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeks—the answer is a panic-stricken no.

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College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults

At East Carolina University, the poor dears are so stressed the school is offering ‘resilience’ education—a fancy of way of saying how to be a grown-up.

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