Hi, I'm a 31 year old student and i've just finished the first year of a BSc. The course itself has been really interesting, i've enjoyed doing the work, and i've got A's and B's all year on my coursework, but I am the only mature student on my course and i'm really struggling with that. There are also very few mature students at the university as a whole- so few that the mature students society was disbanded! I also had to move a long way to come here so all of my existing friends are hundreds of miles away.
I've been out with the other students on my course and I get along with them but we don't have very much in common and I study in Scotland, so many weren't yet 18 at the start of the course. The only social activity on offer all year has been drinking and clubbing. There are societies for faith groups and sports, but I don't believe in God and I have a disability. The union tried to run pool tournaments for a while which I did participate in but they struggled to get players so now there are no more tournaments.
My course is the only one of it's kind at undergrad level in the UK. I could apply to another uni to do something in a related discipline and then go into this field at post-grad but ideally I want to stay here and complete this degree. I find the younger students fun to work with but I'm really struggling to relax outside of class. The town is much smaller than my home town, and there are no MeetUp groups in the area. I was on eharmony prior to coming here, and when I updated my location there were exactly 0 matches here. When the students go home, it becomes a ghost town. There's not much here, except for the uni.
Advice?