My ride home from the mall this afternoon was a constant battle. I kept eavesdropping & staring at two people across from me. I was inspired. How could I not be? I've always found it incredible when people my parents' age go back to school because they want to get their degree, but I find it even more incredible when these people tend to make friends with the "socially awkward" students in the class.
It's odd because we make our parents' generation to be this huge hypocritical group of people who were raised to think so differently, raised to stick to what they know. Yet here is that very same generation becoming best friends with those our own generation deem "weird". Maybe I'm generalizing, maybe those who are open minded enough to go back to school are just generally open minded & don't mind making friends who could be their children.
That wasn't the point of this post. The point was that people who go back to school inspire me. They inspire me to do my best because I know I'll regret it if I don't.
I wonder how different university is for them...
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I have always wondered the same thing, I take a few night classes and there are always a few 'older' students in attendance. They usually integrate themselves with the 'younger' students so easily. I can only imagine the apprehension they go through before attending the first class of the year, knowing that they are almost double the age of most of the students. I am always impressed...
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