That has a great deal to do with it, as well as the ability to manage time and projects that comes with maturity and managing a household/family.
I always got a kick out of the "kids" in my cohort that would be wildly texting and carrying on the Sunday before a project or paper was due. "Let's meet in the library at 11:00 (pm) Sunday night and have a study session!" No thanks, kids, I was done with this last week. I'm going to get some sleep. I think a lot of the "silly" and "ridiculous" has more to do with dealing with the maturity and frontal lobe development of the typical 18-22 year old. If the majority of students were in their 30s or 40s a lot of that would not be necessary, I believe. The one crippling aspect of higher education at a later age is the inability to realize the benefits of such if you decide to progress into graduate school. I was seriously considering continuing on until I realized that, A: I would never reach my full earnings potential due to the late start in my career, and B: the cost/benefit aspect of it didn't make sense, either. I didn't want to be paying student loans out of my SS or pension... Sure would have been fun and challenging, however. Dan On Dec 22, 2012, at 11:13 AM, WILTON wrote: > At 34-37, I found it to be reasonably easy, too, in a program "geared" to > 18-21-year-olds. 'Found a lot of it to be very silly and ridiculous, but I > "went along" with it, took my mostly A's and moved along. 'Course, I was > totally committed, highly dedicated and fully determined. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig" <diese...@pisquared.net> > To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:02 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Anybody there? > > >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:19:15 -0500 Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: >> >>> And I will say that as a "mature student" college is far, far easier. >> >> I agree with that statement, having gone back to school 20 years after my >> Bachelors. >> >> >> Craig >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
