LOL, lots of memories.
But, I think youth today have it harder in some respects. For one, you gotta start working at age 12 if you want to go to college - and you have to make the best grade, be an officer in every frikin club, score 1200+ on the SATs and write a novella by the time you graduate high school or you just get to be one of the herd. Not to mention the fact that once you get your college degree, big deal everyone's got one - so go to the bottom of the ladder.
It ain't all peaches & cream.