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Originally Posted by Dionysus
You guys are kidding? Only teens play drinking games where you all are from? I was at a party just a couple of months ago, they were playing all sorts of drinking games. The youngest person at the party was 23.
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No, not necessarily. But we make the conscious choice not to "party" with those kinds of people past a certain point. I have plenty of friends in their late 20s through 30s still acting like every night is Spring Break. Those are people to hang out by the pool with or occasionally shop with-- not people I'd care to be around 24/7 because that isn't my lifestyle anymore.
Again, it's not a game of who is mature or immature-- just the kind of atmosphere you find fun or right for you. There's generally a leap in the way you think once you hit 22/23 that separates you from the younger students.
Some older PNM's may also find themselves the victims of similar age bias on the part of the sorority members... some may find that they are as old or maybe older than some of the alumna advisers.
And there is the age factor... If I were 24, I would not want to be taking my marching orders from a 19 year old who was preaching sorority etiquette at me in new member education, and then that same person hypothetically asking me to go on a beer run with her for my super over-the-hill ID. It's a bit different to be older in the workplace and taking similar direction from a superior who is a bit younger-- the age lines blur as you get older, but the young adult years are still a little too close for comfort.
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