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Quarter Life Crisis 

The period beginning some time during high school and lasting until college graduation in which a person feels emotionally and physically out of shape compared to others. Is similar to a mid life crisis but there is no way to spend your way out since you're broke and have to actually change yourself.
I must be going through a quarter life crisis. I just feel so depressed and I'm not even through with college.

quarter life crisis 

young adulthood and the dilemmas that come with it
My quarter life crisis has just begun.

quarter life crisis 

You are considered to have a "Quarter Life Crisis" if you have had a nervous breakdown between the ages of 20 and 30.

See One Eight Life Crisis or Mid Life Crisis for more information on the former.
"I am seriously, like, having a nervous breakdown"
(Evesdropping Bystander thinks...) She's having a Quarter Life Crisis!

quarter life crisis 

an early replacement for the all too impatient, need-to-have-everything-now, cell-phone-me-later-to-say-"hey", internet-crazed, generation x-ers and on who absolutely cannot wait until middle age to have their real midlife crisis, they need one NOW!
Jerry Yang is like totally having a quarter life crisis after having made his first billion prior to mid-life and now not knowing what to do/buy next.

quarter life crisis 

From the John Mayer song "Why Georgia"
"Might be a quarter life crisis"

n.
the moment you realize you are a quarter of a century old.
A: Dude, you're oooold.
B: I'm only 25.
A: That's a quarter of a century.
B: What? What?! Ack!

quarter life crisis 

stressing and/acting up out in your 20's. taken from mid-life crisis which used to be stressing in the mid-30's, but now has been pushed up due to longer life expectancy.
heh, look at that college student over there, she's totally buggin, she must be having a quarter life crisis