Correction
Oh wait- there WON’T be thousands of others like me. Most people don’t decide in their mid-thirties that abandoning a high paying job to take organic chemistry sounds like fun. And the average vet school applicant is closer to 25, not 35. Logically, I know I’m not that old. But, like, oh my gosh, when I, like, talk to some of the kids that are, like, in college now, I, you know, like, feel, so, like, OLD.
Not that today’s young minds aren’t smart, caring individuals. It’s just that I feel out of place. Maybe it’s the language, maybe it’s the station in life. I worry about the mortgage and funding my retirement plan, not about where the party will be next weekend or whether that guy is going to call me again.
Then again, I didn’t really worry about those things the first time I was an undergrad. I worried about paying for school without any parental support, and what I was going to do with my life, and my place in the universe, and… I worried a lot. I had a miserable time as an undergrad. That three-year major depressive episode didn’t exactly boost my GPA.
That’s one of the reasons taking organic chemistry now actually sounds fun to me. I want to be the brilliant student that I should have been the first time around, but wasn’t, because the scariness of life in the real world got in the way. Sooner, I think, than it does for most people.
Sure, there’s the quarter of a million dollar debt I’ll be facing at forty, but what’s another little mortgage when you get to take organic chemistry?
Jun 04, 2008 | 0 | Non-Traditional Students