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  • 31-12-2010 2:08am
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    steddyeddy
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    As mature students do you feel being older excluded you from having a social life in college, and if not did you socialize mainly with other mature students or with the younger crowd too?


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    Laydee
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    We all went out as a class & we quickly realised that the 17/ 18 year olds idea of a night out was very different to the night in the pub that the mature students were more comfortable with. We quickly divided. The mature students do still go out with some of the LC students but they're the more mature ones or the ones who prefer a night in a pub where you can hear other people & talk.


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    Larianne
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    With me its a mix. My closest friends in college are 19, 20, 21 and 27. I'm 28. I don't think myself as being any different from the others. The oldest guy in the class is in his 40's and he never misses a class night out. Always up boogying away in D2. :D


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    Annasopra
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    As mature students do you feel being older excluded you from having a social life in college, and if not did you socialize mainly with other mature students or with the younger crowd too?

    Very mixed actually - my class is divided between mainly 2 groups of people older and younger and I try to mix with both - also I did join some societies such as lgbt, labour (I kind of know a lot of them already), Equality so I think that helps too

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Yep, I definitely agree that you should also socialise with people outside your course/class. I'm part of the dive club in college which is a mixture of undergrads, postgrads and graduates. So there are people from 20 up to people in their 50's in the club so its a great mix.

    I'm also going to try organise a beers for the college forum on boards. Once these nightmare exams are finished.

    You have to make the most of your college experience yourself. ;)


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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Larianne wrote: »
    Yep, I definitely agree that you should also socialise with people outside your course/class. I'm part of the dive club in college which is a mixture of undergrads, postgrads and graduates. So there are people from 20 up to people in their 50's in the club so its a great mix.

    I'm also going to try organise a beers for the college forum on boards. Once these nightmare exams are finished.

    You have to make the most of your college experience yourself. ;)

    fantastic idea :)

    Thanks for the answers guys im doing a qick job abroad and then im returning to education, im 29 and was thinking i at a weird age to be socialising being not too old or not too young but i guess its all in my head!

    (by the way excuse my typing i broke my arm recently and am getting used to one handed typing)


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