Creative work, coming-of-age in college. At what point can we say we have grown up?

She started to show three months into our first semester sophomore year. It wasn't the first time I had seen someone my age turn before my eyes from a college student into a woman. The fine distinction between "adult" and "student" is one that is made often. When a prospective employer sees "student" as your main occupation on an application they immediately make one assumption- your main goal, your main focus, is your own success. When she started to show, three months into our second semester of college, and her hips started to widen, her face fill out, her body reflect that happy pregna…