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Advice needed please, start uni at 22 years old?
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Hello people! Basically further education was never on the agenda for me, as I knew that I would be working with my dad as soon as I left school. Thought I was jack the lad and happily worked like a horse from the age of 15. Before I knew it I was 21, had lost contact with most of my friends, had a virtually non existent social life and begrudged the fact that I was not at uni having a great time like most of my friends are/did. I also hated the fact that I was working no where near my full potential.
So I am asking the question is it too late to go to uni now? Will I fit in even though I will be 22 if I manage to get in? (looks like I will need to do a foundation course for a year to get the relevant qualifications to start the degree) I really feel that I need to revitalize myself, get some new friends and learn some life lessons as to be honest for a 21 year old I am woefully immature in some aspects. Please give me your views. All the best, Leon.
So I am asking the question is it too late to go to uni now? Will I fit in even though I will be 22 if I manage to get in? (looks like I will need to do a foundation course for a year to get the relevant qualifications to start the degree) I really feel that I need to revitalize myself, get some new friends and learn some life lessons as to be honest for a 21 year old I am woefully immature in some aspects. Please give me your views. All the best, Leon.
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Really, if this is what you want to do, go for it. Uni is an amazing experience and besides, people drop out and reenter the education system every year, so even though I felt like the oldest one there, in actuality there's men and women who are in their 40's and 50's...
Think it's fair to say though that the term 'mature' doesn't apply to many of the ones I know. You get a fair age range at uni anyway, the ones that are summer birthdays and have just turned 18 (or the Scots who are 17) through to the September birthdays who've had gap years and are already 20 when they start their 1st years, and that's just from the standard 'school leavers'.
In my house, there are first year students of the ages 18,19,23 and 24. (and I'm 19). There's another one as well, I'm not sure how old she is. Well grown up for her age though, fills the entire bloody freezer with her leftovers, so I get about 1/12 of it when I should get 1/6 (yes, I do get anal about overusing your proportion of space when it runs out
I bet you'll be fine.
Its never too late to go back
I'm a mature student at college now (most of the girls are 16-18) and love that I'm older - I feel much wiser, and it's actually become an advantage!
age is pretty irrelivant i think
What I would say is do it now and not later in life. The guys who are in their 30's are finding problems getting graduate jobs, which seeing as they're doing the same degree, expected to get the same results and have similar previous work experience we can only put down to age.
Thing is, if I start this september coming, would clearing be my best bet, or do mature students go about ucas differently? I mean its a scary thought not having a 6th form tutor telling you what to do.
Go for it, its never too late..
The deadline for Route A courses is 15 January (mainly academic courses) however if you're looking at an Art based course then Route B's deadline is 24th March.
I also have two brothers, one who dropped out of uni and the other who was never going to go. Both are now at uni after long breaks, one as a 30 year old and the other 27. They are both loving the experience and are doing really well.
Go for it!
Before this I took a BND course for IT Practitioners. This got me the grades and points I needed to get into uni but I dont think it matters so much what courses you take to get there (although I'm sure it would help) because now I'm doing a BA in Business studies which is completely unrelated.
Dont worry about age for second though mate - going back to education will be the best choice you ever make, it was mine!
Really, there's a whole spectrum of ages. If you start at 22 you won't be the oldest person there by a long way, and there will be plenty of people your age to socialise/live with.
The only annoying thing was sitting in lectures and a lot of the 18 year olds who had never lived away from before boasting about how drunk that had been the previous night. But that's not necessarily an age thing.
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(6th form then college), but i was still your age. Far from being the oldest one there i was one of the youngest. There were a lot of mature students in my uni..
You seem to have this preconceived idea that uni is fun. I can't speak for anyone else, but for me it was just hard work. I'd love to know where all these parties were supposed to be. I'd never been to one or even heard talk of one.
it still bugs the hell out of me though haha
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