When Steven Lutes graduated college he took a job with Teach For America in a city he'd barely visited, teaching a subject he hadn't studied in years. Find out what happened next...

Opening Music - Pascal Boiseau - Feedback
Closing Music - Carmelo - High School

Episode 1 - Steven Lutes

Today Christine works in admissions for the Humphrey School. But when she was 19 years old in her first year at college, she got a call from her dad that changed everything. Find out what happened next...

Opening Track- Pascal Boiseau - Feedback
Closing Track- Dramata-Ambivalence

Episode 2 - Christine Preston

Here's a romantic edition of Coming of Age just a day after Valentine's! Dennis met Kelly on the way to spend two years together in the Peace Corp in Turkmenistan. This is the story of what happened when those two years ended...

Opening Music - Pascal Boiseau - Feedback
Closing Music - The Grey Havens - Let's Get Married

Episode 3 - Dennis Duffy

After years of rebelling against her families ideas of what being grown-up meant Sherry Gray looked around and realized her life was changing. Find out what happened next...
Opening Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/364111/feedback" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Pascal Boiseau – Feedback</a>
Closing Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/863125/afecto-changes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Afecto - Changes</a>

Episode 4 - Sherry Gray

When we talk about death, we don't usually talk about logistics. But when Kendal Orgera was just out of college she found out about this side of death first hand. Hear her story...

Episode 6 - Kendal Orgera

Garrison McMurtrey began to feel like an adult less than a year ago. He moved out of Mississippi, found a job in the cities and started doing his own laundry. Hear his story...


Opening Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/364111/feedback"> Pascal Boiseau – Feedback</a>  
Middle Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1074829/on-my-own"> Unique Project - On My Own</a>  
Closing Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1164857/return"> I Am Not Lefthanded - Return</a> 


Episode 7 - Garrison McMurtrey

Akua Asare was 12 years old when she decided that she just had to travel abroad. But it took her a while to make it happen. Here's her story:

Episode 8 - Akua Asare

In 2009 the job market in the US was so bad that Kassi moved to Spain for work. But what she found when she got there was not what she expected...

Episode 9 - Kassi Absar

Hilary is a student in the Urban and Regional Planning Program. When she thinks about her life she often thinks about geography. And her story of beginning to feel adult involves a trip across the country, a rain storm and several aggravated grown-ups. 

Episode 10: Hilary Lovelace

At age 12 Mary Maronde decided what she would do with her life. She pursued that goal with single minded determination for decades. And then things changed. Hear her story...

Episode 11: Mary Maronde

Leif has a story that begins in kindergarten with literal crying over spilled milk. From there his story takes him all over the nation. Find out more...


Opening Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/364111/feedback"> Pascal Boiseau – Feedback</a>   
Closing Music- <a href="https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/144368/kindergartner-in-love"> Dennis Caraher - Kindergartener in Love</a> 

Episode 12: Leif Kurth

Season 1 of Coming of Age draws to an end on a high note. Dean of Students Eric Schwartz shares his views on adulthood and his own process of growing up.



Episode 13 - Eric Schwartz

It's only four more days until Season 2 of Coming of Age begins! 

Music- Dramata Ambivalence

Season 2 Preview

Cameran Bailey went from graduating a top notch engineering school to sleeping on his brothers couch. Here's the story of how he got there, and what happened next...

Opening Music: Pascal Boiseau- Feedback
Closing Music: Master See- Hard Work

Season 2 - Episode 1: Cameran Bailey

For a professor, the time between leaving graduate school and becoming beginning to teach may only be a matter of months, but the change is huge. This week, Ed Goetz shares his experience as a new professor.

Season 2 - Episode 2: Ed Goetz

Faris Kasim went to Pakistan with dreams of becoming a doctor. But once there his passion led him to a life in journalism, and that work led into a dangerous situation that made him reflect on his professional direction.

Season 2 - Episode 3: Faris Kasim

Eric Armacanqui was having an amazing time studying abroad in Spain. But on the night of his departure he had an experience that permanently changed his understanding of how people saw him. 

Season 2 Episode 4: Eric Armacanqui

Bringing you stories from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, of the moments when students, staff, and faculty at the school began to feel like grown-ups. Whether they are a classmate, a professor, the dean, or a total stranger, we promise to bring a story worth hearing, told in less time than most students spend complaining about homework.

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