I am in my thirties and so I feel too old to attend a University. Just went into one today and everyone looks like they are right out of High School. So, I have a degree already, just looking to make it better. So, my question is do you think being in your thirties is too old to go to a University
2007-10-02 09:55:15 · 48 answers · asked by amberjake1 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
My recommendation is to go. If there is one thing I've learned thus far is that physical age is a terrible judge of any kind of social development, maturity, reliability, or well..anything else.
If you've been in a repressed environment for a long time, getting out and immersing yourself in diversity wouldnt be a terrible idea. Learning more information on your own and rekindling the knowledge torch is a way not only to build a resume but further your own personal growth as well.
You dont gotta go clubbing with all the teenagers, or hang out at all the frat parties to have a social life. It would be a good way to get out and expose yourself to something new. I could think of no better treatment for a controlling environment.
2007-10-02 09:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by PRGfUSMC 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Honestly, I think being in your 30's is "not" an issue when going to a university. Sure, all the other students still look like they're trying to grow out a beard, or about to grow taller, but age has nothing to do with where you go. For instance, my dad was taking a course in technology when he was 36 at ITT. Nobody bothered him, and it didn't seem to bother him either. Just a laugh, but my 72 year old World History teacher was going for a master's degree in teaching not so long ago. Age makes no difference. So, if you want to go to a college or a university, no matter what age you are, if you want it, go for it.
2007-10-02 09:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by XDefineDX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but you may feel a bit out of place and even isolated. I say this with experience. I was only 25 when returning to college and I felt eons more mature than the silliness that surrounded me. I too had already been working and had 2 kids and 6 years married! After my semester I enrolled into a more adult college, with smaller classes, and a more mature demographic, and it was actually more highly accredited than the University I had attended.
In short, no you are never too old to learn.
2007-10-02 10:02:25 · answer #3 · answered by Xanadu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got divorced when I was 38, and went back to school to get my degree when I was 40. I graduated with highest honors when I was 44, so NO, it's not too late. I was older than some of my professors and some of the kids looked funny at me, but I kept at it and did the work and graduated. My boss told me the reason why he hired me was my degree, and now I am making way more money that I ever had before I got my degree.
Go for it and good luck!
2007-10-02 09:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by Angiej1213 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope I attend college in my teens right out of high school then went into the Navy before I finished. I went back in my late 20's, but still didn't finish. went back in my 40's and finished my degree in computer programing. Now 50 + and I'm in school on line to get my second degree.
2007-10-02 09:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by aswkingfish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope I went to school in my twenties and then to law school in my 40s! Just be yourself. some kids will ignore you but others will ignore your age.
By the way when I went back in my twenties I had a class with a women in her 60s that was seeking her first degree. She put it off while she raised a family and she was now going for it! At the graduation ceremony, everyone young and old was cheering for her!
Good Luck, I am sure you will do fine!
2007-10-02 10:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by B. D Mac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw some $$$ around, and the co-eds/young boys will line up (be your best friend) and make you feel as young as you wanna be... but really -- at your age, you should at least have a sense of SELF enough to care less about the 18-21 yr old crowd.
What are you there for? dating or a Degree?
2007-10-02 09:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're too old the day after you die, until then keep on moving. I went back to college when I was 38, and (aside from some rather painful student loans to pay down) I haven't regretted it one bit. In fact, in some ways it's better when you're older because you get to balance formal instruction against ife experience to see how well (or how poorly) they compare, and since at this age you're likely paying for most of it yourself, you'll tend to milk the instructors for everything they know...to get your money's worth. Good luck in this endeavor...go for it!
2007-10-02 10:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by Captain S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Never too old to go to college. Don't you ever read about these people who are graduating, like, at 90 with a bachelors?? My mom went to college in her late 40's into her 50's. She was very popular, actually, with my brother's(who had just graduated from HS) friends.
2007-10-02 10:00:41 · answer #9 · answered by IJToomer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shut yo face, no, it's never too late to get the education you deserve, if you have a dream, and you need a peice of paper to get it, don't let pubesent fools slow you down, there was a book a few years ago publised, about a woman in her thirtys and all they ways she got thought college, most comically she would go to the book store posing as a teacher, and get fee books and stuff
2007-10-02 10:02:16 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋