Seniors exit thinking that they ought to know everything. In between are a lot of firsts that parents never hear about. Much about this experience remains the same, generation after generation. The prom is still the prom - though today getting the date can be an elaborate ritual, as choreographed as the event itself. The trophies in the trophy case are still dusty.
Drugs are everywhere.
Weapons are common as cars. Parents divorce like they're changing long-distance carriers. On television everybody is richer than you, and having sex. Online there's always someone promoting a new and personal brand of hatred. And then came Columbine.