• ellypny@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    Community college is awesome because you’ll get to take an African literature studies course with 17 year olds straight out of high school, and retired 50 year old construction workers who decided to come back to school. All in the same room.

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      11 hours ago

      My first year of university I went for a japanese course, and we were mostly 18 year olds, some 20-somethings…, and a freshly retired lady. Eventually I decided it wasn’t my thing, but I remember these few weeks rather fondly

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        6 hours ago

        My roommate in college thought that older students should be banned because they don’t have anything more important to do than study, so they get excellent grades and throw off the grading curve for the “real” students. It was fucking up his partying schedule, having to study to keep up with the older, better students.

        I told him to go fuck himself, and went to the job I worked through my entire college term.