20几岁是人生最难的时光

20几岁是人生最艰难的时光

1.You’ll probably be living with your parents for most of it. 你可能大多时间还是和父母住在一起 This is actually a smart thing to do because, unless you come from a loaded family, you won’t really have the funds to go out and buy your own place straight out of college. I mean, you could be one of the lucky ones to get an awesome salaried position straight out of your senior year, but most of us aren’t that lucky. 这样的做法其实很明智，因为除非你家里有钱，否则刚毕业的你真没有足够的钱去买房。当然，你也可能是那个毕业之后就有份好工作的幸运儿，但我们许多人都没有那么好运。

2.Your parents will get on your nerves.

你的父母可能会烦你 Yeah, your living situation in college might not have been amazing, what with weird roommates, loud music emanating from everywhere day and night, and the smell of a certain green substance wafting through the air at all hours. But still, it beats getting nagged on by your parents every day for one thing or another. If you’re in college right now, enjoy the ride.

住校的生活可能并不好过，有奇怪的舍友、日夜吵闹的音乐、绿色植物的气味充斥着你的房间。但是，即使这些也没有父母每天种种的唠叨烦人。如果你现在还住在学校，那就好好享受学校生活。

3.You’ll have more freedom than you can handle.

自由太多，你不一定能掌控好 By this I mean that your life is no longer structured. After 21 to 22 years of life in the system, breaking out of it and having free reign over what you do and where you go next can be intimidating.

这点我想说的是，你的生活已经不再是像前面21或22年那样组织化的。不过，一旦冲破缰绳不再有束缚，你想做什么、想去哪儿都随心所欲的话，这也是很吓人的。

4.Your college accomplishments mean little.

你的大学成绩已不那么重要

I don’t mean in the sense that your degree is worthless, only that employers and people around you don’t really care about all of the hard work you did in college. You could have been an amazing student, and professors might have loved you, but in the real world you’re basically back to square one in terms of having to impress a whole new set of people.

我不是想说你的学历一点也不重要，只是你的老板，你身边的人并不在乎你在大学的成绩。可能你原来是个优等生，老师很宠爱你，但现在你得从头再来，让别人对你有个全新的认识。

5.It’s hard to make friends.

很难交到朋友 Maybe this is just me since I’m an introvert, but it has been tough making friends after college. You no longer have easy access to a wealth of people around your same age, and all of your high school and college friends are scattered like dust in the wind. I’m sure it gets easier later, but when you’re first starting out it’s a bit of a painful process. 也许可能只是我内向的关系，但大学毕业之后交朋友真的有些困难。很难有机会和你差不多大的人做朋友，高中同学、大学同学也像风中之沙一样分散而去。我相信以后也会变得比较容易，但最初的时候还是会很困难。