Talking about the 'match' My Generation ': where is the class of 2000 now? -USA Today

The decade after his graduation from high school is filled with a lot of dreams. Then real life sets - and sometimes these plans becomes upside down.Such is the premise of the new series of ABC My Generation, which again access a group of classmates Austin 10 years after graduation from high school in 2000. "Style documentary sample imagines a Director movie that followed them just before his graduation and recorded their hopes for the future is now back in their lives to see how things worked."Somehow what is good about revisiting these characters is is the first real moment of adulthood, says the author of My Generation/creator of Noah Hawley, 42. Show these 28 years of age for school plans, marriage, children or life in general quite didn't happen the way they had envisioned.And for real life 28 years of age, often the same. In a class of 2000, which was followed for 13 years by USA TODAY, Baltimore-area students got pregnant. One is almost $ 300,000 in school debt. One moved home for nearly a year. One is a provider of medical care for an ill parent.These Millennials (considered the oldest year generation which are sometimes called Generation Y) exhibit a significant feature of his generation: optimism for the future and the ambition to make it happen, suggests that the historian and demographer Neil Howe, whose books on this age group includes the latest Millennials in the workplace, published this year. "In spite of what has made the recession to them - and this is surprising - still not yet.""They are targets of life, says.""This generation remains surprisingly optimistic long-term and they believe in stay on a path with goals in the long term, in spite of very high level of unemployment and a strong economy".in 1987, USA today began on 17 students in a class of kindergarten primary school of Swansfield in Columbia, MD., who would be the class of 2000 when he graduated from high school. Of the 17 original, only eight were still in the area when we write about them in the year 2000. Now, check back with the we were able to get in contact with to see what their lives as in older than 28: Ashkan Dorrian he moved to California in third grade and lived in los Angeles, until last year. After a year in AmeriCorps and an MBA, got a job in the Government on information technology, but was fired last year. Then her father had a stroke, and moved to Reston, is going to help. "Sometimes in life things cast him on a different tangent." Those to make him more, and learn from it. "I am optimistic that something will happen". Chanelle MatthewsShe wants to teach, but a degenerative eye disorder forced them to leave the school community to a cornea transplant. She has a son 2 years of age and has worked in time full during the last decade as a coordinator of telecom in Columbia, MD. She also wears a full-time load classes online. "I have the same expectations that had", says. "I thought that I would go to a University for four years." "I had minor setbacks, but I'm still trying to of".Chad JensenAfter graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, planned to be pediatrician, then a pilot, but 9 / 11 changed. He can finish dental school in may 2012. "I ' ll be more $ 300,000 in debt,", said. Got married in 2006 and lives in Pittsburgh with the son of his wife and 4 months of age. "I want that it was a little more along in my studies, but life is a journey". Marissa SchwartzShe studied psychology at the University of High Point (N.C.), but got pregnant second year and school on hold. She lives in Plantation, Florida, near the father of two daughters, 8 and 6. She can terminate studies in August to be a dental hygienist and is working on a Bachelor. "I thought that life would be different, but I'm more mature because he had to grow".Dave EarleyA grad of psychology of the University of Salisbury, moved with his parents from November 2004 to October 2005. Lives in Essex, MD. and its current work started in clinical research in 2005. You are getting married on Saturday. "In many ways, I am definitely where I thought that it would be in 28," said. Matt McCathorineA graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, he is now an engineer, as planned. Five years ago, bought a house in Owings Mills, MD. "I'm kind of in a position where I feel that I have all these adult responsibilities at work and I have a home, and still I'm a simple guy between university life and life of married with children", said. "When you're young, you think 28 is old." But once you arrive at 28, you become aware that you're not old. You are young, said."Whereeres?Class of 2000 member Lorrie Crizer and Paul Sutusky, left center in 2000, picture could be reached for an update. Readers: do you know who graduated from high school in 2000 or? what you think you distinguishes them as a generation? you among them? Share their experiences and opinions in the comments to guidelines continuación:: share community today us, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Not attack other readers personally and maintain decent language. Use the "Report abuse" button to make a difference. Read more.

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