The Next Great Generation

An online magazine written by and for the Millennial Generation.

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The BSC Ten Years Later: Will it Ever Happen?

By on Apr 9, 2011
Categories: Pop Culture

With last month’s release of a new book, we now know what happened to the Sweet Valley twins ten years after college. What about the Baby-Sitters Club?

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Has Justin Bieber ruined common decency?

By on Mar 16, 2011
Categories: Pop Culture

We’ve all been obsessed with teen idols at one point or another. But when did it get so vitriolic and… creepy? Is it because of social media?

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Bristol Palin’s Mommy Memoir (With Political Aspirations)

By on Feb 18, 2011
Categories: Current Events

Thoughts on Bristol Palin’s rumored memoirs, as well as her future political aspirations, and why both are ridiculous.

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Suffering From Angst? Watch Some Teen Movies

By on Jan 28, 2011
Categories: '90s Week

We looked forward to becoming the teenagers depicted in the teen movies of the 90s, not realizing that high school wasn’t a place of choreographed proms, weeknight ragers or bets about transforming nerds into queen bees.

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We’ve got a [Sexual] ‘Situation’ Here

By on Dec 4, 2010
Categories: Lifestyle

A staggering 34 percent of young women getting pregnant at least once before reaching age 20. But seriously, Bristol Palin and “The Situation” were the best they could come up with to educate us about safe sex?!?

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It gets better for LGBTQs

By on Nov 11, 2010
Categories: Current Events

The “It Gets Better Project” is proof that while maybe we won’t be the generation that changes the country’s gay rights laws (but we hope we are!), we are indeed a generation of encouragement. This Youtube account gives the opportunity for LGBTQs who are out and in the world to send a video message to those who are still in their adolescent years facing intolerance.

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The Rise of the Conserva-teens

By on Mar 24, 2010
Categories: Lifestyle

Millennials have grown up in a society where conservative is a dirty word, so it’s kind of funny – and probably a little bit shocking – that, in some ways, we might be considered part of that group. We came along in the ‘80’s, when peace, love and bell-bottomed jeans were going out of style [...]

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Sex and Millennial Culture: Observations about Teens, Tweens, Homosexuality

By on Feb 20, 2010
Categories: Sex Week

This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. No one will argue the point that sex and the internet go together like peas and carrots. Every time you check your e-mails or surf the web, you’re either being offered bargain rates on [...]

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