Well, Duh!

The headline: Brains of Young Adults Not Fully Mature.

The story states that the researchers tested 18-year old freshmen who had traveled more than 100 miles from home to go to school. Now think about that for a moment. Boys and girls who had just graduated from high school leave an environment where Mom and Dad were probably dictating their every move and in which they had damn little autonomy or independence. They move a good two hours away from that environment, start to take college classes, live in a dorm with other college students, and have no one holding their hands or waking them up in the morning.

Of course their brains are going to grow! All the new stimulation of having to make decisions, meet deadlines, think for themselves…. The little freshmen minds have got to grow and mature. Or they will find themselves back home. Soon.

I wonder what a similar test done with Marine recruits fresh out of high school would have shown?

Of course it might also explain why so many liberals grow up to become conservatives upon reaching their 30s.

Via Yahoo! News