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No offense to your professor, DeltAlum, but his way of looking at things is pretty naive. I have friends in the military, and they have their own problems with maturity -- they have trouble relating to people in adult ways or making adult decisions because they spent four years doing exactly what they were told, a lot of them struggle with immediate gratification versus what would be beneficial in the long-term because, for a while, they were in a situation where they HAD to focus on the short-term. The military breeds its own problems with emotional maturity. (And I say that with love because a lot of these people are still really good kids -- but that's the problem; most of them are still just KIDS even at 23 or 24.) I also work with a lot of people who went straight into the work world before college or instead of it, and as a rule, they aren't any more mature than their college counterparts. Those kids in the military and those who spent the years from 18-22 working are still just as dumb as the kids in college, and they're drinking, doing drugs, and doing stupid stuff just as often.
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