I guess she's still in school, but that's all the mention of her that was in the piece. Seems random.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 5:37:24 pm PST #557 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - Jan 06, 2006 5:47:12 pm PST #558 of 5968
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe it's someone's idea of a dig? "Yes, she's still at University, at her old and decrepit age."
(I was an Older Than Average Student at my last Uni. I graduated when I was 28. Practically in my grave, I tell you.)
Maybe it was just the writer or editor with a misplaced sense of "We have to explain her age!" When really? No.
It's odd.
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 5:48:31 pm PST #559 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a standard term for someone doing a bachelors at her age, isn't it? I just don't understand why the student thing was worth mentioning.
JenP - Jan 06, 2006 5:52:58 pm PST #560 of 5968
It's a standard term for someone doing a bachelors at her age, isn't it?
It's not phrasing I would use (not that that means it isn't standard), but, yeah, why mention it at all? At any rate, not just me who thought it was odd, so I feel better now.
DCJensen - Jan 06, 2006 6:35:32 pm PST #561 of 5968
All is well that ends in pizza.
I haven't heard it, but it could ahve come into vogue after I left, or you know, in places outside of western Minnesota....
Jesse - Jan 06, 2006 6:42:40 pm PST #562 of 5968
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, rather than saying he knocked up a "co-ed" or whatever, which would sound sketch-o-rama. I mean, sketchier.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2006 7:04:29 pm PST #563 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nutty - Jan 07, 2006 10:47:15 am PST #564 of 5968
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Mostly within the university world, I find students older than about 22 are called "non-traditional" students. That category also encompasses people going to school part-time while working, people who already have kids, etc., but it usually is meant to say "student is 45 and just sent her youngest off to join the Marines and is ready to see the world herself."
DebetEsse - Jan 07, 2006 11:17:10 am PST #565 of 5968
Woe to the fucking wicked.
"non-traditional" is the term I am familiar with, as well
Megan E. - Jan 07, 2006 11:17:43 am PST #566 of 5968
we called them "mature" students.