age

One grad student's perspective on why he's getting his PhD:
"I don't particularly enjoy my research. But I guess I'm here more for the social scene. Here, there are a bunch of young people, but once you start working it's very hard to meet and connect with people your age."

Not everyone sees things this way, of course, but I guess it's somewhat understandable? Most grad students are more or less at the same life stage? And I guess age is a somewhat important thing to have in common with someone if you want to connect with him (or her) on a more than superficial level. And groupings of people by age seem to occur only in educational institutions. Oh, and maybe retirement homes.

But I do have this one image of people of different ages really getting to know one another and spending time together. And that's in the context of a church bible study group. It's really cool how you can go to a church and (ideally) meet a bunch of Christians, and identify with them on the basis of Christ and not age.