Living at uni and quite literally alone

Mature student surrounded by younger students. 32 years of age is a good age to get a degree, but trying to fit in? Not happening lmao..

Anyone else had a similar experience?

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

If I went back to college, I'd probably choose a distant form of studying. I did a driver's licence at 29 and it really is an odd feeling to attend group classes with 18-20 year olds.
I also remember how strange it was the other way around when I was on a study stay as a 23 year old and there were groups of foreign students well over 30, maybe pushing 40s even, moving around campus, living in dorms etc. In one room you have 19-20 year old girls and right next are grown up mature foreign men who not always acted like grown up mature men. 😅

GoToTheCompound

@CrazyMusicLover Those grown up foreign men in the dorms probably had the time of their lives lol

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@GoToTheCompound Yeah, they came off as rich Arab and Indian men who came rather to travel the Europe than studying. But I don't know. I guess it's common to study for many years if someone is in the medical field but there was no such studying program in that university.
Whether they also worked, I have no idea, but they had no problem buying flight tickets just like that which would be unthinkable to regular students.

GoToTheCompound

@CrazyMusicLover Lol yeah I don't doubt it, especially back then. Those guys know how to have fun

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@GoToTheCompound I guess most people who are dirty rich know how to have fun.

GoToTheCompound

@CrazyMusicLover Damn skippy! Imagine being a complete savage back then when the drugs were clean and sex was free, before everybody had a camera and there wasn't disease everywhere.. oh my goodness I'm lowkey really jealous of hippies that partied hard in the 60s and 70s