Would you become a career student if you had the chance?

No thank you. I have no interest in going back to school.
No, I don’t know anyone who is.

@anniereborn I’m on the border. I’m stalling until I can find my passions. Right now my passion is Fluther and running a household, (playing house) by myself.

Absofuckinglutely. I adore learning and I fear that it will become harder to learn new things once I move onto a “real” job next year.

Sounds mind-numbingly tedious, so no.

I already am, and I wish I would graduate sooner.

No.

I would consider going back to school for some of my interests, but I’m sure I wouldn’t want to be in school all the time unending. One of the biggest reasons is I don’t like to read very much.

Well it’s certainly worthy of consideration as long as I am allowed to design then establish the curriculum. Come to think of it, doesn’t life boil down to an endless series of “lessons”.

No, it sounds terrible. I’d rather actually enjoy my life.

Students go to school about 12–15 hours per week. Other than that, it’s studying and writing papers. They make their own schedules, pretty much. Especially if one didn’t need certain courses for a degree, they could pick and choose what classes they wanted according to interest AND according to schedule.

Another option would be to audit classes, meaning to sit in on them without having to do the work and without receiving a grade.

If I had the money to continue the lifestyle I have now, so in other words all my bills were paid and I had spare cash comfortably to buy what I needed and travel when I wanted, and my only obligation was 12–15 hours per week to learn whatever I wanted, hell yes I would take that in a heartbeat.

@Mariah Never give up your quest for learning new things. I graduated from college eons ago, but I’ve never stopped learning or searching for new knowledge. I learn new things every day.

I would do that in a second! I love the campus atmosphere. My projects are keeping over 20 engineering students busy doing interesting work.

Sure I have always loved to learn and will probably always be curious to learn new things.

I would go to law school, but that would be it. If I had a grip like that, I would surely be doing more than hanging around class most of the time, unless it was back in the day, then I might just to bag coeds

Can’t recall anyone who had the opportunity for that.

I was a career student for a while. I’d do it again.

@LuckyGuy I loved the campus atmosphere too…when i was 21

No. I love learning, but I don’t enjoy learning with strangers, sitting in lecture halls. I also disagree with much of the education system in general.

@anniereborn I love being on campus. I don’t think of it as an age thing. Did you go to a very small school maybe? My campus is about 2.5 miles across, the actual land owned by the university goes much farther. We have mostly farms on the property outside of the main campus. It has a performing arts theatre that gets Broadway tours, a library, it’s own dairy store with ice cream that was made from the milk from campus cows, cafeterias with decent food, it’s beautiful with large trees, green lawns (not in the winter) and people all around interested in learning, discovering, brainstorming and debate.

I only go back to my school once every 3 years or so. Catch a football game, buy some clothes, walk around campus and the downtown area adjacent to it. I love going back there. Meet up with some college friends.

I went to a State University and there were some people in the classes that were in their seventies. They used to audit the classes (take them not for credit and not have to write the papers, just sit in) and I used to think what a great idea that was.

I too went to a state school. It was not small. I know all about older students. My mom got her degree at age 70 :)

70. That’s wonderful.

That is indeed great to get a degree at age 70 and only goes to show that one is never too old to learn or accomplish goals.

Well my mom was exceptional. Too bad she did everything right physically and mentally that she should have and ended up with Alzheimer’s just 7 years later anyway.

There is a perpetual student in the book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared for some complicated but very amusing reasons (and consequences). Excellent book.