He doesn t want to have a deep therapy session. He wants to toss around a football out on the lawn. Perhaps you read the article in the Atlantic Monthly this month on The Organization Kid . They interview a whole bunch of undergraduates at Princeton University about college life today and they note a number of trends that are substantially different from the baby boomer experience of college, some good, some not so good. One of the nearly universal characteristics of this generation of students at elite universities is their over organized lives.
Students report that they have very little time to just hang out.
They have goals. They know where they are going and what they are about. They carry day-planner s and they use them. All of their day is structured. Class, lunch, volunteer project, study, frat meeting, work out, bed.