1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you cant happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment. 2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and dont worry about if theyre going to call you afterward. 3. Minimize your passivity. 4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someones day. 5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers youve just met. 6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a useless Bachelors Degree. Debt is hell, and things didnt pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isnt the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this …