He was giving an honest picture of his life as an adolescent in high school and a near-adolescent in college.
I forgot that I also wanted to highlight the use of the word "adolescent" here. I once called out the waldo for an equally elastic use of the word in excusing the conduct of migrants, and I would be remiss in not mentioning it again here.
Nobody really uses the word "adolescent" to describe someone in their late teens or older. And if we were discussing a common street criminal instead of a privileged young man, I'm sure that instead of "an adolescent in high school and a near adolescent in college" you'd be discussing a "near adult in high-school and an adult in college". This "but he was just a boy" sympathy only extends to people we're already inclined to be sympathetic to. We regularly hear of efforts to have 17 year olds tried as adults. I've never heard of an effort to have a college student tried as a juvenile.
By the time you're 17 years old you already have a fully functional understanding of right and wrong.
-k
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