Mature students on fresher's week

Bloody kids. I remember watching Bagpuss.

OK, just shoot me now...........

Jeez... shouldn't you be going to a retirement home, not university.......

7) Expect to be hit-on repeatedly by younger students (this applies regardless of their age - or your age). Not sure if it applies to both genders but it's a current phenomenum which will catch-out the unsuspecting. Whatever the temptation.... if the age diff is 5+ years....DON'T do it! Your street cred will be permanently destroyed.

I’m a 28 year old guy and am due to start a degree course in September and have been wondering... if I should go out on the razz on fresher’s week?...and if I did..would I look like a raging bellend?...What with the majority of people being 10 years younger than me n everything...and what proportion of mature students go out on fresher’s week? (Rough estimate – I’m not asking for Home Office statistics or anything)

I'd like to meet new people and have a laugh but by the same token wouldn't want to compromise anyone else's university experience and youth...considering I'm pretty much coming to the end of mine... I'm also struggling to think what I would have in common with 18 year olds and in attempting to ingratiate myself fear I will come over as an unintended Saxondale parody. Particularly so when scanning the 'Latest Discussions' subjects on the right hand side of this page; "Finding it difficult to find a time to masturbate", “Girls are you attracted to “action”?”, “How historically accurate is Pirates of the Carribean?”, “Punched the girl I like by accident, well not really” etc.... I’m sure topics like these are vital discussion for teenagers but I feel I would be able to offer very little input and thus feel left out / a bit of a ****.

Ultimately my main focus is to study, and as mentioned I feel I’ve done my share of partying and messing around when I was younger so won’t be going out much, not least because I will be living in my own home which is a fair drive from campus. Fresher’s week, seasonal events, and end of year / graduation type events however, I feel are events where it would perhaps be best to make some semblance of an effort to socialise.

So what is the best course of action; Stay in with an 8 pack of John Smiths watching Garrow’s Law in my tweed jacket whilst retaining a modicum of dignity.... or..... go out, get plastered and try to fit in with the kids?...Best case scenario: A great time is had and it turns out to be the fresher’s week equivalent of Old School. Worst case scenario: A date with the magistrates and turns out to be the fresher’s week equivalent of Leaving Las Vegas.

they are not children anymore most of them are a lot more grown up than that. That's more year 8-10 talk. Most of them would be a bit hyper and homesick. They need your support as well

Jeez... shouldn't you be going to a retirement home, not university.......

My cunning plan is to join a sports club for the craic. Will mean meeting and spending time with people and drinks after the game, whereby you can choose to leave when you want I just can't handle hangovers like I used to. It takes me a full day in bed to recover now!

I'm 26 and going to uni this September.

I'm quite concious of the age gap seeing as I've always associated with people older than me, so it's going to be weird on the other side of the fence.

I'm quite concerned of coming across as a misinterpreted Mrs Robinson type character, hanging around with a load of innocent, impressonable 18 year olds. Nothing says 'cougar' like a girl in her late twenties trying to guard her pint as a crowd of school leavers stumble about dressed as golfers, mumbling incoherently.

I think I might give Freshers a miss...

I've never dated younger.

Maybe now's my chance?

Half my age + 7 = 20

Lol, me, I can't wait for it, being firmly at the stage where I am old enough to be the mother of some of these kids (if I had done the de rigueur stuff and gotten pregnant as a teenager..).
But then again I have dated someone who firmly put me in the sphere of 'creepy' according to the acceptable dating limit (half your age + 7 years is the youngest you can date without it being weird )..

36 divided by two is 18 + 7 = 25.

I think its more of a guideline rather than a rule.

At least I bloody hope so

I think its more of a guideline rather than a rule.

At least I bloody hope so

Oh wait hold on I think I got it wrong..........

36 divided by three is 12 + 7 = 19