Originally Posted by MSD

The midlife crisis is a struggle with where you are in life and where you want to go, so if we're accepting the quarter-life crisis as a real thing, then going through school to prepare for something they can't do would definitely be in the same category.

Originally Posted by MSD

And it's very distinct from what we're talking about here because the midlife crisis is defined from a psychological standpoint as a n internal struggle over choosing stagnation or generativity and how to go about it best.