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.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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JenP - Jan 06, 2006 5:52:58 pm PST #560 of 5968
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.
Cashmere - Jan 07, 2006 11:44:08 am PST #567 of 5968
Now tagless for your comfort.
I had an 80 year old in some of my art classes at college. He'd been a sign painter all his life and was going back to get a fine arts degree.
That's definitely a "mature" student.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 07, 2006 12:11:33 pm PST #568 of 5968
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I loved taking night classes in college because they were mostly composed of non-traditional students who were really there to learn (and not because Mommy and Daddy were paying the tab for them to find the location of every beer bust on campus). Class discussion tended to be insightful and there was no whining about homework and reading assignments.
Una - Jan 07, 2006 6:43:45 pm PST #569 of 5968
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I love having non-traditional students in classes I teach, for all the fabulous reasons articulated by Matt.