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Would you mind giving some more context around your age or relative career maturity when you went back to school? I’m recently 27 and aiming for grad school nex
by _sword 8y ago
Would you mind giving some more context around your age or relative career maturity when you went back to school? I’m recently 27 and aiming for grad school next year, accelerating my plans after a really bad summer grind in my role.
- phyalow 8y agoIm exactly the same age. Emails in my bio.
- cableshaft 8y agoI went back to school when I was 28 and graduated when I turned 30. The cost of school is insane now, but otherwise I have no regrets. I actually could have conversations with my professors based on my professional experience, so it felt a bit more engaging to me. But I also always felt like I was behind, because it was kind of assumed that I still had knowledge from when I took classes years ago fresh in my head, and that was far from the case, so I generally felt like I was playing catch-up the whole time. This was undergrad by the way. Due to not being willing to take student loans I dropped out of college after my first couple of years because I couldn't afford to keep going. If I knew now what I knew then, I would have just taken the loans. Tuition shot up like crazy after 8 years away.