Consider this article in today's New York Times Magazine article about "emerging adulthood" - a so-defined transition period between college and adulthood for 20-somethings. Then use the following links for reference while you're reading...

The highly-publicized new dorm on Swarthmore's campus is reviewed in The Phoneix, their student paper. The same project is explained by William Rawn Associates the architecture firm that specializes in new college community spaces.

A Time Magazine cover story (January 2005) focused on the ideas of emerging adulthood, using the term "twixters" to describe the young people stuck between being a kid and an adult. Get an introduction to Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, author of Emerging Adulthood, who coined the term. Then hear Dr. Arnett and Lev Grossman (author of the aforementioned Time cover story) in a roundtable on the WHYY FM program, Voices in the Family.

Here are two additional books of note in the NYT article: Youth and Life by Randolph Bourne (1967), and Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel (2005). And finally, an old post of mine from 2002: Dissecting the Millennials. Happy reading!