Pensioner students :D

Hello all,I just wanted to know if there are many other VERY mature students on here. I'm fearfully close to 40 and a PhD student and it'd be interesting to chat about the trials and tribulations which come with that... Apols if I've asked this before. Memory ain't what it used to be.

I think there's quite a few of us very mature students. I'm 46 and in my first year BSc degree. I chat to the younger ones on my course, but don't socialise with them and wouldn't expect to. There's another on my course in her 40s so we've kind of banded together, plus another girl in her mid 20s. I travel a fairly long way to get to campus, so I've no time for socialising there anyway and have my friends at home, so its all good. I did worry about it quite a lot before I started, but I haven't had any comments and most people have been really friendly.

We were asked in a workshop in my first year where we wanted to be in 40 years and I said "retired" and the workshop leader said "you won't be retiring at 65!" I am cursed with a baby face, which isn't all it's cracked up to be...