“More than anything I hope to have a salaried job with health insurance. I don’t think that’s asking … too much.”

“The reality of the situation is that Generation Stuck is getting a delayed and therefore stunted start.”

“I somehow failed to meet my own potential and my own expectations.”

“I often get caught up with comparing myself to other 25- or 26 year-olds and how much they’ve accomplished so far.”

“I don’t get how anyone in this type of situation can seem positive.”

“Being broke means not having a dating life.”

“The one relationship that was strained the most was with my very good friend.”

“I sometimes wonder if we had both been gainfully employed, would we have been able to better deal with the challenging situations that arose?”

“Making new friends is an extremely frustrating experience for me.”

“I think Jon Stewart hit upon it best: “They’re really only entitlements when they’re something other people want. When it’s something you want, they’re a hallmark of a civilized society.””

“The question is: To what extent is this recession to blame for having knocked us off our intended paths?”

“Love me or hate me for it … yes, I do feel entitled.”

“Entitled, hardly.”

“If nothing else, this recession is teaching a generation of people to pare down their lives to the absolute most important parts, and that may not be such a bad thing …”

“Having chosen to study at a state school has protected me from racking up huge amounts of student-loan debt.”

“I consider myself pretty lucky to have graduated from college with only about $20,000 in student-loan debt.”

“If I could tell my younger self that I would go over nine months without a job, I would have thought twice about signing that paperwork.”

“$192,836.87. That’s what the Department of Education’s website says I owe. And it grows.”

“I think my cell phone is the most expensive thing I own.”

“September 18th is the day I see the last student-loan payment I’ll ever have to write for my undergraduate education cashed.”

“I am so confused. I know that college is responsible for both my income and my debt.”

“I am six years out of college and I am still $45,000 in debt.”

“The question wasn’t, ‘Is this too much?’ The question was, ‘What’s another ten grand when I already owe so much?’”

“It’s evident that the liberal arts are being pushed aside and devalued in America.”

“My main duties have gone from writing press releases, attending congressional hearings, and managing national media events to selling guests various types of margaritas.”

“Three years after graduation, I’m still working in the only position I could find.”

“I was laid off two weeks before Christmas ’08. Since then, I’ve taken many jobs in the field that I got my degree in, but none of them last for more than four months.”

“The thought of having no safety net if the work trickles to a halt is just too much pressure for me at this point.”

“I’m well-off compared to your archetypal Millenial. By the way, is there someone we can talk to about changing this designation? It sounds like a disco musical on roller skates.”

“If I could share a piece of advice with my 2004 self, it would be this: Choose a path and stick to it … I couldn’t.”

“Things have been complicated most recently by the discovery that a family member forged my signature on a $15,000 educational loan.”

“I think this has taken a pretty heavy psychological toll on me, as I am much less confident in my abilities than I used to be.”

“I will never be able to get out from under my student loan debt.”

“What I worry about most with my generation isn’t just the dollar difference in our lifetime earnings but our attitude toward work.”

“I can’t afford anything larger than a tiny apartment, with my ‘office’ two feet from my bed … There are days when the actual physical isolation this causes has an impact on my work.”