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When Does Maturity Set In?
An anonymous reader writes "Two Dartmouth researchers claim that they are one step closer to discovering at what age human maturity sets in. From the article: 'For the study, Baird and graduate student Craig Bennett looked at the brains of nineteen 18-year-old Dartmouth students who had moved more than 100 miles to attend college. A control group of 17 older students, ranging in age from 25 to 35, were also studied for comparison. The results indicate that significant changes took place in the brains of these individuals. The changes were localized to regions of the brain known to integrate emotion and cognition. Specifically, these are areas that take information from our current body state and apply it for use in navigating the world.'"
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I'm never going to grow up! First post!!!!!
When moving away from home you encounter a hell of a lot of new experiences and theres so much to learn and take in.
For instance, embedding the location of the pub and distance to the nearest kebab shop are key.
Students who cannot manage this feat rarely last a week, you see them cold hungry and sober in lectures wishing they were back at home.
Of course your brain matures when you leave home though, you do have to adapt, because you just couldn't survive if you let your mummy do everything.
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And I would just like to say POOP! *giggle*
From TA:
.... significant changes took place in the brains of these individuals"
"During the first year of college
- yeah, because it's the first year of college - they're all busy pickling their brains with newly found alcohol and drugs.
duh.
I wonder what the effect of beer is on maturity and these areas of the brain known to integrate emotion and cognition?
I know after 12 pints I often lose the ability to speak, start dribbling, and crawl around on the floor like a 2 year old ...
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Oh, that's wrong. It really should be: You're only young once, but you can be immature any time you want to be.
I guess it's the perspective age brings. Now go fetch Grampa his whiskey, and mind you he knows exactly how much should be in there.
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lol, I agree. To be considered a mature adult you should be able to beat a 2yr old at their own game.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
How do you define or measure maturaty for a study? Is it when you stop laughing when someone farts or says penis? Penis.
Can I bum a sig?
After 12 pints I am invisible - and Superman !
hey Grampa, Grama's been dead for 15 years, so that whiskey ain't exactly gonna help you with your sex life.
No, but spending your inheritence will.
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I went to univeristy right after high school and bombed out. Went into the army, the Canadian Army for years after that. Since, during that time, I was never seriously in dannger of losing life or limb, no real maturing happended there (there was a lot of drinking/bar hopping though).
About 8 years later I realized the army wasn't a career. Was I becoming more mature? Nope, the money sucked.
After ditching the army I went back to school and got a CS degree (made dean's list too one year). Mature? nope. well, perhaps. Was able to concentrate although I didn't take it that seriously.
Graduated at the start of the boom, made lots of money, bought fast cars, got married. Did marriage make me 'mature'? nope.
I even bought a house and started a business and made even more money. When I had 9 employees the responsability of having these people depend on me and the business for thier livelyhoods did make me pause a few times. No big deal, the business is going gangbusters no need to truely accept the responsibility. The status quo of immaturity continued thoughout the bust. I even had a couple of kids.
Then the business tanked. Not suddenly but I could have handled it better if I had truely accepted the responsibility from the get go. Now I matured *fast*. took some wrangling (and most of my life savings) but all the *people* got thier due and the bogey man bills got paid.
That left me out of work with little prospect for employment in my town. Little savings left, a big mortgage, and 5 mouths to feed. I was 38 feeling like a 55 year old.
It took a year but I finally got a job paying less than half of what I was making before.
I am a fully mature adult now, scraping to get by. Every cent we spend is carefully accounted for. No money for gadgets, movies, dinners out, vacations. We buy our duds at a used clothing store.
I liked it better when I was immature.
what game would that be? the shitting-in-diapers game?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
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