I'm a month into my sophomore year of college. This week it dawned upon me that at the end of this academic year I will be half way through my college career. Like a lot of college students, I'm not ready to jump into the real world. Why? I feel completely unprepared. I've gone through all the required grades of school. Thats a long time. If you do the math that's about 13,032 hours I spent in a classroom somewhere learning.

Until college I was basically told what classes I needed to take that, and that was it. In those classes I read books that I'll never remember to titles too, I learned about the history of countries I don't know the location of, I learned the pythagorean theorem and trigonometry. These are all things that had such a high importance placed on them. But since I've graduated high school, I honestly haven't thought about any of it, until now.

I have so much to learn. It's overwhelming. How do I do taxes? Who do I vote for to be the next president? What political party represents my beliefs? What is a credit score? How do I apply for a loan? How do I get a credit card? What if I want to buy a house? These are all questions I have. There's so many things I don't know how to do, simply because I was learning how to calculate the effects of gravity on a feather, rather how to 'adult'.

My mom is one of the best adults I know. She just knows how to-to say the least-do stuff. She can change a tire, fix a pluming issue, sew, fix a car, fix a wall, cook. She just knows how to do it. I asked her, "Where did you learn to do all of that?" She responded "Home economics class. They don't teach it anymore but when I was in school they did."

It's no secret that the transition into adulthood isn't easy. When so much importance is placed on facts and formulas rather than information that could help us be well functioning adults in society, adulthood feels nearly impossible.

I hope that by reading my article a lot of young people realize they're not the only ones who are feeling overwhelmed by the inevitable adulthood. We're all new to this and it's going to take time to learn everything.