Socialising as a 32 year old at uni..

Its how you act rather than your age that people will be bothered about.

There's no point lying to the guy, I'm currently at uni and some people will see you as 'that older guy that acts immature', just telling the truth.

Going to university at your age isn't the problem but it's your lack of motivation to the academia side which will be, which can possibly be brushed off for an 18 year old fresher that's not got their head screwed on, but not for a 32 year old man that's experienced the wider world outside of education.

I'm sure if you really sat down and thought about it you could think of other ways to meet/interact and hook up with 18-21 years olds than wasting 3 years and all that money studying something you don't even need.

What I meant to infer is that as a young man...

You're a pervert and an immature predator. Act your age old man.

I'm sorry but you need to accept what people are saying now rather than actually go through with this and be disappointed then as opposed to now. I feel sorry for your health issues in the past, but you need to embrace your current age and life and not dwell on the past. In the outside world your age is still pretty young, but in a university setting especially the teenagers you will obviously look quite mature. Now that isn't a bad thing at all, unless you come across as creepy to them and you seriously risk doing so with your approach. I'm sure you're not actually creepy, you're just stuck in the mindset of what you were last at uni and trying to recapture that. It won't work - at best you will be ignored by people of a young age for trying to be 'down with the kids' (again I'm not saying you're that old), at worst you might 'get lucky' and get into 'something' with a female of that young age. But if that happened, things could get seriously messy for you. Essentially, my advice is grow up and go to uni for the right reasons. Not just to look better to others, but for your own state of mind. You may seriously regret it if you keep on going about thigns the way you are.

Another point is that you seem to have a chip on your shoulder about higher education, perhaps because you left initially you failed to complete your degree. The fact you don't know what infer means tells me you aren't that well educated, which I appreciate may not be your fault if you had poor health growing up.

It's easy to dismiss a higher education or a degree because you didn't get one. Some courses aren't very challenging, I will accept that. You can't lump every UK degree course in to a single category and say "They are a joke". The fact you socialised with people who got 2:1s by just partying all the time tells me you originally attended a poor university and/or had a very poor course. You can't tar every course in every university with the same brush though.

If this is a genuine thread, I suggest investing your time in your education because in the long term it might serve you better. It's your life though.

Btw I still think I can do it, maybe if I was 35 I'd really be visibly too old.

Right so if I see a murderer on TV that makes me one too? Lmao, you just made up a phrase and made it sound like a cliche.

Pls, you're in your 30s and you're trying to socialise with and **** 18 yos without even realising uni is for education. Meanwhile others your age have had a lengthy career and are starting families. Grow up.

Are you actually kidding me? Take a good look in the mirror, I knew exactly what I wrote when i wrote "infer" it's absolutely the correct word to use in that context rather than "imply".

I repeat most degrees are a joke, I did not fail I had to leave due to health related issues, I did 1 term only.

I wouldn't call Bristol, Imperial and Edinburgh poor universities, the people I relate to attended these unis, I was at one of these btw.

In your 3rd year you will be 35 though...

See how being 32 and trying to act hip and down with the teenage students has resulted in a bunch of arguments and insults...? Just think for a minute... Does that tell you anything, maybe?

Explain what you think infer and imply mean.

Erm yea mostly from older people, social arbiters and people with serious maturity issues (btw this can be of any age, age is not an indicator of maturity).

Funny that my experience is different in real life, I was casually dating a lovely girl of 21 at 30, when we met we both thought we were 25, no issues there.



You need lessons in the English language before you point the finger at anyone.
So what I meant to infer i.e. suggested to be the case from evidence NOT imply.

Here's the Oxford dictionary definition:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/10/imply-or-infer/

Good for you googling that. You do realise you are the speaker though and you were....inferring something by speaking? Is that what you are saying??

Still didn't answer how you kept tabs on your "mates" in Imperial, Edinburgh and Bristol all at once.

You're not going to have a good time though. People are gonna want to be with people of their own age who still have youth in them, they're not going to respect you whatsoever since you're an old man who wants his youth back. Doesn't matter how old you look, your age matters and you'll be excluded. You'll be lucky they dont call you grandpa.

I sometimes hang out with the mature students. If someone is willing to spend time with me then I will happily spend time with them!