As I was approaching graduation at age 37, SWMBO and others, including head
of the civil engineering graduate school, kept telling me, "You should go on
graduate school while you're at it." My reply, "Any more schooling I do is
gonna be on full pay and allowances." 'Thought I'd be able to go to
graduate school (Air Force Institute of Technology) in the Air Force. By
the time I was selected for it, the final selection board thought I was "too
senior" (40-year-old major) - 'sent 24-year-old lieutenant, instead. I went
straight to base civil engineering job I would have gotten after the school,
anyway - straight from flying B-52's to base civil engineer (Well, for 4
years, anyway, then back to B-52's.)
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?
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
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