22, Too old for uni?

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Reply 20

AidyD

Original post by dipless

Where are you going to study, i'm off to Manchester and they have quite a high mature student % also :smile:

what you going to study?

Im off to UCLan, going to study psychology and marketing :smile:

I was really surprise at how high the percentage is, whats it like at manchester?

Reply 21

dipless

Original post by AidyD

Im off to UCLan, going to study psychology and marketing :smile:

I was really surprise at how high the percentage is, whats it like at manchester?

Oh great, that's an interesting combination. I'm going to be doing Geology and planetary scince, which will be fun... I hope.

Likewise, Manchester has a 29% mature students and I was also very supprised!

Reply 22

username227498

Try to get in this year before the fees rise next year.

Reply 23

AidyD

Original post by dipless

Yes will be interesting studying them both side by side for 3 years, although marketing is essentially a strand of psychology, they are both linked, and Im looking forward to the prospect of advertising/consumer psychology.

Hey if geology and planetary science interests you then Im sure you will find it fun, I bet you get to do some travelling around too.

Anyway - good luck with your life at uni, think 5 years from now we will both be in very different places :tongue:

You'll fit right in.

Hilarious. Get your ass to Uni whatever your age if it suits your situation.

Reply 26

dipless

Original post by AidyD

Yeah quite a lot of fieldwork... which will be nice but a bit costly :s-smilie:

I can see they are linked bet those modules will be very interesting :smile:

You too best of luck... 5 years still seems a long way away but will be gone in the blink of an eye :smile:

Reply 27

Stressworthy

Everyone's different and as long as you're doing what's right for you, it shouldn't matter what age you are when you start. I know the phrase is probably overused but it really is just a number... there isn't that much in a few years, and you truly realise that when you're 18+ imo.

Reply 28

xoxAngel_Kxox

I have a few "mature" friends at uni, ranging from 24-53 so you're never too old; they're proof of that. There's not that much difference between a 22yr old and an 18yr old; in fact most people won't even ask your age because you probably look like you're the same age as most freshers.

Reply 29

wizardtop

Original post by ClareConfusdCornes

I'm 22 and I've spent the last 4 years travelling and working around Europe. I didn't get the grades I wanted when I finished my A levels so I never went to uni. I want to go now but I feel like its too late to do a course that isn't vocational or for a specific career based reason. I took the UCAS Stamford test and it suggested I look at history/international relations/ engilsh literature courses. Is it too late for me to do a uni course and have that much debt when there isn't a specific career role at the end of it and I could just get a boring paid job? (parents want me to get a job and leave home!)
Any advice or opinions from anyone whose been through something similar would be great!

22 isnt old ClareConfusdCornes you just a young un,and i am twice as old as you and i hope to go back to university myself,so if you defiantly want to go to university,i say go for it,you will always regret it ClareConfusdCornes if you dont go :biggrin:

Reply 30

Bella Occhi

Like everyone else says - go for it!

Reply 31

ahoward

Original post by ClareConfusdCornes

Definitely not! My brother is 27 and just finishing his second year and theres soemone on my course at uni who is 40! Your age doesnt make a difference, everyone just wants to get on :smile:

Reply 32

wizardtop

Original post by AidyD

Im off to UCLan, going to study psychology and marketing :smile:

I was really surprise at how high the percentage is, whats it like at manchester?

Unsual combination AidyD psychology and marketing but good luck with that that m8.I take it you can still get GBR recognition for that course then? thats if you wanted to do a post-graduate qual in some sort of Psychological field afterwards :smile:

Reply 33

ellakrystina

Not at all. My mum's 47 this summer and is starting a degree in Social Policy 2011 entry :smile:

Reply 34

dipless

Original post by ellakrystina

Not at all. My mum's 47 this summer and is starting a degree in Social Policy 2011 entry :smile:

Good for her... Are you going in the same year as your mum?

Reply 35

ellakrystina

Original post by dipless

Good for her... Are you going in the same year as your mum?

Yes we will be! However she's studying locally while I'm moving away.

Reply 36

dipless

Original post by ellakrystina

Yes we will be! However she's studying locally while I'm moving away.

That is so cool, good luck to you both :biggrin:

where and what are you going to study?

Reply 37

LavenderBlueSky88

You're not too old :smile:

I'm 22 and will be going to do a second degree in september (by which time i'll be nearly 23)

Reply 38

AidyD

Original post by wizardtop

Yes it probably does seem quite ununsual, I wont be earning the relevent recognition to continue straight on into typical psychology routes, and certainly not as a psychologist, Im from a sales and marketing background, and will be looking at going into high-level marketing.

The psychology part of my degree is to compliment the marketing rather, which probably sounds quite inverse within the University world but looking at it the other way around this will make me far more employable as a graduate going into the advertising/marketing world than a single honours in marketing.

Lot of research done on this anyway - plus I love psychology! Am currently bright red sat inside having stupidly spent 5 hours sat in sun reading Gross... Sunburn hurts!