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I went back to college in '89 at age 25. Took two years of computer graphics and technical illustration.
As for being "an outcast" because of my age at the time, I never experienced a sense of that. We had quite a number of older and mature students on the course and there was no shortage of people my age to associate with.
I discovered that I had a lot more focus and academic discipline for learning than I did in the latter years of high school. I had the benefit of eight years of 'real world' working experience and was able to more easily determine what I needed to gain from the course rather than naively go along with every bit of pseudo-knowledge the so-called 'educationalists' thought I needed.
In some cases, I was probably more qualified to teach a few courses than the instructors themselves (the college was notorious for hiring inexperienced and under-qualified instructors). As a result, I concentrated on learning the things I knew I'd need later in the real world, rather than waste my time studying peripheral garbage that didn't mean a hill of beans in the workplace.
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