"Mature age" study

[creeky]

(trying to recover from calling myself mature )

Anyone ever gone back to study ...... nearly 30 years after leaving school?

I left school at 15 after getting a govt job, and still here in it today ... 29 years later ...

We have been given 20 spots in our state for some people to get paid to do a government management course, that is a recognised university qualification .... I have nominated for it ... and think I have a pretty good chance of getting accepted ....

only thing that bothers me ... I didnt really study when I was at school - I just got by on memory alone ... but I figure this might be a bit different ....

How difficult was it to get back in to that sort of thing?

[Desdamona]

Hey, you missed out on the "mature" discussion earlier, I guess.
(It's just as well, since that thread was purged just as soon as a moderator spotted it! )

I went back to school at 35 without ever learning to study, and I survived.
It took a lot of work, but it was well worth it. (Geeze! That was 25 years ago! )

[ph4ever]

it was...................intense

[OceanCityGirl]

I am 44 and in the middle of student teaching. I have been in school now for 5 1/2 years, two bachelors one in education one in history. It can be done even by those of us who cut school more then we went.

[LIPH]

I went back to school when I was 39. I survived. Barely.

[Lightning Bolt]

Went back to school at 36, and it made my head hurt, fer sure.
Just went back for some follow-up last fall, and, again, had to really work at it.

[OceanCityGirl]

Oh and so you know, many many of the people in my classes were non-traditional students. They generally did better then the typical college kids. What I have found is that I did poorly in high school because I was lazy, boy crazy and liked to party a bit too much. I also had a very difficult home life. Now as an adult with control of my home life, a supportive husband and kids, and maturity I do very well. Even getting through two levels of algebra which I could barely pass with a tutor in hs was easy. You can definitely do this. You just need to organize your time and life a bit. You also have to be willing to let some things sit on the back burner while you are working on school work. I have a four day weekend and half of it will be spent cleaning my long neglected house.