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I would think long and hard about this one. College just ain't the same if you go when you're 30. You've got your whole life to mind your career.

• mechanical_fish 19y ago
  Well, yes, I'm sure that college is much different as a 30-year-old with a nice car, the right to buy beer legally, a worldly-wise attitude and a pile of money saved up from your ten-year hacking career. For one thing, girls may actually want to talk to you! But, seriously: I agree that the college experience may be most enjoyable when you're in your twenties, if only because that's how old most of the other students are. You may not want to be so old that you feel a generation gap with your own classmates. But the guy is nineteen. He's got eleven years to go before he's thirty. He can afford to work at three or four startups and still graduate from college before he's thirty.