LEARN THESE 18 NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLES PRIOR TO YOU BECOMING 18

The age at which you are considered an adult is eighteen.

At this age, you may finally vote, buy a house legally, and get a tattoo without your parents’ permission. However, it’s also the age when, similar to astronauts getting ready for takeoff, you might need some guidance for the journey ahead.

First, each of us went through The Times and its archives, selecting items that spoke to us, and then we selected these eighteen pieces. After sharing our results in a Google Doc, we discovered that each of us had selected items that fit into one of three categories: social awareness, happiness, or education.

Any aspiring adult should find our selections educational, entertaining, and enlightening.

We also want to know what else you would add to our list.

EDUCATION

1. How to Handle the Crazy College Application Process

It’s difficult to get accepted into college. Rejecting someone in college is considerably more difficult. However, overcoming obstacles is a big part of growing up, and for most teenagers, applying to colleges can be their first real rejection experience.

You will be reminded that you are defined by the opportunities you create for yourself, not by the name of the university, by reading about people who were not accepted into the schools of their dreams.

2. My Pal, the Ex-Islamist Extremist

This inspiring tale of a former radical who became a Western journalist demonstrates the ability of education to drastically alter their perception of the world. This text not only suggests a means of eliminating extremism, but it also teaches us that education is a priceless gift that should not be undervalued.

3. Are You Going to Hurry, Walk, or Fall Into a Career?

Do you question if you’re headed toward the career of your dreams? As it happens, enrolling in college is just the first step. Your actions in college hold greater significance.

4. The Superkids of Today Are Tired

You probably lack enough sleep. Children are skipping sleep all throughout the world in an effort to improve in academics, athletics, the arts, and other areas. However, cutting back on sleep can have a significant impact on your waking hours; being continuously

What society considers success is not worth being worn out all the time.
Rather, take a break, relax, and figure out what you really love to do.

5. Campus Suicide and the Need for Perfection

Find out what options are readily accessible to you in case you experience mental health concerns prior to enrolling in college. You should never feel alone.

HAPPINESS

6. A Harvard Study’s Secrets to a Happy Life

It appears that a lot of students believe that a state of joy can be attained in a straight line: achieve academic success, then land a lucrative job, and lastly, be happy.

Money has barely anything to do with happiness, according to this Harvard study and the director’s movie above, which uncovers some of the real secrets to happiness.

7. The Pleasure of Cooking with Mom

Many students excitedly enter the workforce at the age of 18, taking on a whole new set of obligations and advantages. Maybe they are a little too eager; there is delight in eating food that has been cooked by somebody else.

8. How to Work Out a Rent Agreement

The impending threat of rent rears its avaricious head as maturity draws closer, snatching paychecks totaling hundreds of dollars at a time. This article offers legal ways to live in an apartment without selling a sister or going without food. It follows numerous young individuals and their shrewd methods for securing lower rent.

9. Tips for Maintaining Stable Hands

A few of our parents are major coffee lovers who require their morning caffeine fix. Avoid the temptation to overindulge in coffee when your duties begin to mount when you reach 18, since it will cause your hands to shake.

10. 52 Destinations for 2024

When you’re young, it’s the best time to travel. You’ll get some inspiration for your bucket list and wanderlust from this post.

11. Advice for Making It in a Tiny House

Becoming eighteen usually entails attending college, and attending college usually entails living in a small dorm. The helpful advice in this article will help readers enjoy living in a tiny place more.

12. Recommendation Letter: Peering Through the Window

It’s enjoyable to consider how seemingly insignificant things can have greater significance than they actually are. Consider a window, which is a pane of glass that lets us see outside and all that goes on there. Maybe we ought to consider our own reflections when we gaze through the glass.

13. The Ethical Checklist

In this opinion piece, David Brooks suggests that improving one’s “résumé virtues” is ideal for adulthood. But he contends that “the virtues of eulogy are more important than those of the résumé.” The honors heaped on the deceased at their funerals are known as eulogy virtues.

It would be wiser for teenagers to look for “energizing love” and simple delight rather than roles of leadership or honor.

SOCIAL AWARENESS

14. The Class Divide in Black America

    Although it shouldn’t be, privilege isn’t typically taught in schools.

15. What is your knowledge of religion?

    Without knowing anything about other religions, a lot of people assume that those who practice them are more likely to embrace violent ideologies. By answering this little quiz, you can learn more about world religions, including maybe your own, and reveal some of your preconceptions.

16.  Aftershock: How Terror Affects Political Decisions

    Getting to vote is one of the key benefits of becoming eighteen. Following terrorist attacks, some political parties exploit terror in the wake of terrorist incidents to advance their objectives and win voters. This documentary tells the tale of the National Front’s regional campaign in the south of France following the November 2015 attacks on Paris.

17. Social Media: A Creator or a Destroyer?

    Although social media has great potential, it can also be exploited just as easily for good as for bad. Utilize it constructively.

18. 11 Great Reasons Not to Cast a Ballot?

    11 Great Reasons Not to Cast a Ballot?
    Errol Morris, the filmmaker, talks with young Americans about the benefits of voting and the reasons why some people choose not to participate, such as awkward family meals or apathy. Published by Errol Morris on October 30, 2012.
    Teenagers get a plethora of new legal rights at the age of 18. Voting is the most crucial—or, given some of the reasons in this video, perhaps the least crucial? Watch this to see why youngsters today should value voting and community service more.