Well, rather than saying he knocked up a "co-ed" or whatever, which would sound sketch-o-rama. I mean, sketchier.
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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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."
"non-traditional" is the term I am familiar with, as well
we called them "mature" students.
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.
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.
I love having non-traditional students in classes I teach, for all the fabulous reasons articulated by Matt.
My college has a name/category for the "non-traditional college age" students. Which sets them apart but also makes them sort of special, and not in a short-bus kind of way. Certainly they had a much different point of view and priority list than mine. Very enlightening at times.
Non-spoilery excerpt from Yahoo's blurb for the next Lost ep:
Jack watches with interest as Kate gives Sawyer a long-overdue haircut.