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It's not that weird - I'm sure most folks spend their school-years referring to other kids as "the same year (grade) as me" or "the year (grade) above/below me"
by rhplus 3y ago
It's not that weird - I'm sure most folks spend their school-years referring to other kids as "the same year (grade) as me" or "the year (grade) above/below me". Even to this day, I intuitively group friends based on the academic year group they were in.
- petesergeant 3y ago> Even to this day, I intuitively group friends based on the academic year group they were in How far out of school are you?
- Symbiote 3y agoI left university over 10 years ago, but I'm still aware of those friends who were in my year, vs others who were a year or two ahead or behind. People from my year are the ones I lived with, did group projects with, worked until midnight trying to solve a difficult task that had been set, celebrated the last exam with, etc. I certainly don't know the year for everyone. Students I mostly saw at parties, who studied different subjects (or went to different universities, for it was London) could easily be my year ±3 or more.
- petesergeant 3y agoI feel like the op was mentally translating people they’d never shared an academic context with into how many academic years above or below them they were — I’d noticed myself doing this for a couple of years after I left education