"Mature" students

[mstriumph]

Well you'll probably be head and shoulders above the current crop in terms of being able to write your ideas clearly while also using acceptable spelling and grammar. .....................
Good luck.

or being able to write at all

[Usarka]

i went back to uni as an adult.

who would believe either of those......

[helenoftroy]

First couple of assignments were bloody hard but so worth it in the end.

I left school without University Entrance a long time ago...I graduate this year tho if I'd actually worked at school instead of bunking to ride dirtbikes in the river bed(twas Ashvegas there wasnt a lot to do....)Id have been a great Doctor and not a great nurse!!!........

You'll be fine its a lotta fun

[Livvy]

Damn. I thought this might have just been about Uni for those in the general age group of, having to deal with being more sensible than their peers.

I forgot this place is full of old people...

... Don't shoot!

I'm currently trying to decide where I should go for Uni myself for next year (and more importantly, what I want to study).

[James Deuce]

I forgot this place is full of old people...

It is pointless to mock that which you will become, given time.

[Delerium]

After doing it part time and extramurally for several years and now getting beyond frustrated at work, im studying commerce at auckland uni full time as of 1 month from now. im 25 so Ill be older than most.

[Disco Dan]

Spent more time chatting up the girlies and perving than listening to lectures... *sigh* will only go back when i'm married I think!

Too many short skirted red headded hotties keen for the bitch pad....

[Beemer]

I left school in 1979 with a B Bursary but had no plans for uni at the time as I didn't know what I wanted to do or be. I decided to go nursing in 1986 through Wellington Polytechnic but loathed it and left during the first year. I didn't do any more study until I returned from the UK in 1994 and realised I wanted something more interesting to do that being a sales rep. I did an introductory journalism course through Whitireia (it's now a full-year course) and then went to Wellington Polytechnic the following year where I did the year-long journalism programme. A year later I did the first of what would have been six papers of an Advanced Diploma in Journalism through the Open Polytechnic. My boss wasn't supportive so I only did the one. Fast forward to 2006 and I was doing some web content management work for Massey in Palmerston North. They had taken over the Open Polytechnic course so I decided I may as well finish it. The course was now called the Graduate Diploma in Journalism Studies and I had to do a further seven papers to complete it. I did three in the second semester of 2006, then two in the first semester of 2007. In May of that year I talked to someone who had done a Diploma in Publishing through Whitireia, so I enrolled for that as well. In the second semester of 2007 I did two papers through Massey and two through Whitireia, as well as working and dealing with my mother's terminal illness and death. It was bloody hard, but I'm glad I didn't give up.

I graduated from Massey in May, and in July I start the final two papers for the Whitireia diploma. I was going to start them in February but needed some time to myself. I'm ready to begin studying again now, and will hopefully complete those two papers by Christmas.

I am 46 now, and I work fulltime from home as a journalist, editor and photographer. Last year I didn't earn much as I spent so much time studying, but this year I am earning bloody good money and getting very big new clients. My lowest hourly charge out rate is nearly four times what I was getting when I worked for a boss, and my highest rate nearly five times.

Without taking on those study programmes, I would never have had the skills or the courage to tackle the work I am doing now, so for me, it's been really worth it. I am far more organised (not that you'd know it from looking at my desk...) now than I was two years ago, and far more confident in my ability.

[rachprice]

My mum started her teaching degree at around 34 now at 44 she is finishing her masters, maybe start on a PhD in a few years. In my (maybe biased) opinion she has done amazingly and is one of the smartest people I know.
On a side note I was at a welcome piss up in my first year of medicine and after doing a degree in pharm I got called a mature student Im all of two years older than you buddy!

[imdying]

Spent more time chatting up the girlies and perving than listening to lectures... *sigh* will only go back when i'm married I think!

To let people fuck your wife whilst you're out all day?